American gothic literature : a thematic study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead /
American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation, anxiety about power and property. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans ad...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: power and possession in American gothic literature
- The American woman: still possessed
- A new possession: slavery and beyond
- Return of the dead: the rebirth of the dispossessed Native American
- Dispossessed possessor: the displaced patriarch
- Masterless: the anxieties of freedom
- Return of the master: the new patriarch
- Textual (dis)possessions: Hannah crafts a textual labyrinth
- Intertextual voices in Gloria Naylor's Mama day: Shakespeare, the Bible and the dispossession of the reader
- Among women: convergences and divergences in gothic space
- Conclusion: toward a fourth century of American gothic.