Twenty-First-Century Gothic

An Edinburgh Companion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Maisha Wester, Xavier Aldana Reyes, University of Sheffield) Wester, Maisha (Global Professor, School of English, Manchester Metropolitan University) Aldana Reyes, Xavier (Reader in English Literature and Film

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A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approachCovers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi’s White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin’s The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante’s Cove (2005–7), Hemlock Grove (2013–15), Penny Dreadful (2014–16) Black Mirror (2011–) and even the Slenderman mythos.This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters – including zombies, vampires and werewolves – and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-01
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt654 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Antal sidor336
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474440929

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Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press). Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Gothic in the Twenty-first Century, Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana ReyesPART 1 UPDATING THE TRADITION1. Postcolonial Gothic - Sarah Ilott 2. Queer Gothic - Andrew J. Owens3. Postfeminist Gothic - Gina Wisker4. Neoliberal Gothic - Linnie Blake5. Gothic Digital Technologies - Joseph CrawfordPART 2 CONTEMPORARY MONSTERS6. Contemporary Zombies - Xavier Aldana Reyes7. Contemporary Vampires - Sorcha Ní Fhlainn8. Contemporary Serial Killers - Bernice M. Murphy9. Contemporary Ghosts - Murray Leeder10. Contemporary Werewolves - Kaja Franck and Sam GeorgePART 3 CONTEMPORARY SUBGENRES11. The New Weird - Carl H. Sederholm12. Ecogothic - Sharae Deckard13. Gothic Comedy - Catherine Spooner14. Steampunk - Claire Nally15. Posthuman Gothic - Anya Heise-von der LippePART 4 ETHNOGOTHIC16. South African Gothic - Rebecca Duncan17. Asian Gothic - Katarzyna Ancuta18. Latin American Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra19. Aboriginal Gothic - Katrin Althans20. Black Diasporic Gothic - Maisha WesterNotes on the ContributorsIndex.