The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic /

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

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 global...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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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

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