The Haunted States of America
Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American Fiction
Author(s) James Morgart
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
- May 2022 · 256 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781786838766
- · Ebook - pdf - 9781786838773
- · Ebook - epub - 9781786838780
About The Book
Endorsements
‘Unlike most accounts of “Cold War Culture”, which scarcely mention the Gothic and emphasise a shared national identity, The Haunted State of America shows us that Gothic fiction was not only alive and well in post-war America, but also that it sustained the nation’s various regional traditions and explored their distinctive problems of race, religion, gender, and ethnicity . . . A ground-breaking and compelling study of American Gothic fiction.’
Sanford Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘The Death of a Culture’: Subversion of Monstrosity in the Southern Gothic
2 Hanging Women on the Hill: Exposure of Patriarchal Conformity in the
New England Gothic
3Haunted Grounds of Healing: Horrors of Normativity and Genocide in
the Gothic Midwest
4New York, New York…: Greed and Abjection in the New York Gothic
5Repressed Ramonas and Braceros: Return of the Oppressed in the
Southern California Gothic
Coda
Works Cited