Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic

Rebecca Duncan is Researcher in Literature at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, where she co-ordinates the “Aesthetics of Empire” Research Cluster. She is the editor/co-editor of several collections, including ‘Decolonising Gothic,’ a special issue of Gothic Studies (Nov. 2022). Her recent work appears in the journals ARIEL (2020) and Interventions (2020; 2022), and in collections for Palgrave (2021), Bloomsbury (2022) and University of Minnesota Press (2022). Her first monograph, South African Gothic (2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. Rebecca is recipient of a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Project Grant (2021-24).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Globalgothic Beyond Globalisation - Rebecca DuncanPart 1: Approaches1. Decolonial Gothic - Sheri-Marie Harrison2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror, and Weird - Stephen Shapiro3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e - Fred Botting4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora - Maisha Wester5. Engendering Globalgothic: The ‘Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein - Monica Germanà6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies - Gregory Luke Chwala7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecogothic Forms - Rebecca Duncan8. Extractive Gothic - Sharae DeckardPart 2: Issues9. US Imperial Gothic - Kevin Corstorphine10. Globalgothic and War - Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet11. Terrorist Gothic - Steffen Hantke12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream - Linnie Blake13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity - Elsa Bouet14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies - Chloé Germaine15. Globalgothic, Viruses and Pandemics - Johan Höglund16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market - Laura R. KremmelPart 3: Modes17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: from Britain to Brazil - Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism - Lucie Armitt19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing - Sofia Aatkar20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic - Timothy Jones21. Brexit Horror - Roger Luckhurst22. Online Gothic - Xavier Aldana ReyesPart 4: Regions and Geographies23. Gothic and the Global South - Rebekah Cumpsty24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed bodies in 21st Century Narratives - Inés Ordiz and Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaíno26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers, and the Aesthetics of Excess - Esthie Hugo27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic - Katarzyna Ancuta28. Desert Globalgothic - Rune Graulund29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu’s The House of Rajaniand Ayman Sikseck’s Tishrin - Karen Grumberg30. Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler31. ‘In Brussels no one can hear you scream’: EU gothic - Barry MurnaneCodaPlanetary Gothic: An Invitation - Rebecca Duncan

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