The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic / / ed. by Rebecca Duncan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Aatkar, Sofia,; Ajuria Ibarra, Enrique,; Aldana Reyes, Xavier,; Ancuta, Katarzyna,; Armitt, Lucie,; Blake, Linnie,; Botting, Fred,; Bouet, Elsa,; Casanova-Vizcaíno, Sandra M.,; Chwala, Gregory Luke,; Corstorphine, Kevin,; Cumpsty, Rebekah,; Deckard, Sharae,; Duncan, Rebecca,
• HerausgeberIn: Duncan, Rebecca ,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)

Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomenaProvides a comprehensive theorisation of globalgothic in the age of planetary crisisIncludes analyses of gothic fiction from six continentsOffers a range of new globalgothic approaches, modalities and regional permutationsThe Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context. Examining texts from across six continents, the volume considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, chapters address gothic engagements with – among others – resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism, and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key – though sometimes complicit – register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalgothic beyond Globalisation -- Part I: Approaches -- 1. Decolonial Gothic -- 2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror and Weird -- 3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e -- 4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora -- 5. Engendering Globalgothic: The ‘Hideous Progeny’ of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein -- 6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies -- 7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecohorror -- 8. Extractive Gothic -- Part II: Issues -- 9. US Imperial Gothic -- 10. Globalgothic and War -- 11. Terrorist Gothic -- 12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream -- 13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity -- 14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies -- 15. Pandemics and Globalgothic -- 16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market -- Part III: Modes -- 17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: From Britain to Brazil -- 18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism -- 19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing -- 20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic -- 21. Brexit Gothic -- 22. Online Gothic -- Part IV: Regions and Geographies -- 23. Gothic and the Global South -- 24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic -- 25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Narratives -- 26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers and the Aesthetics of Excess -- 27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic -- 28. Desert Globalgothic -- 29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu’s The House of Rajani and Ayman Sikseck’s Tishrin -- 30. Nordic Gothic -- 31. ‘In Brussels no one can hear you scream’: EU Gothic -- Coda -- Planetary Gothic: An Invitation -- Notes on Contributors -- Index