Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
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Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Book Details
- Author
- Leila Taylor
- Publisher
- Repeater
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Black & African American
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781912248544
- ISBN-10
- 1912248549
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ISBN: 1912248549
Author: Taylor, Leila
Condition: New
A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century AmericaHaunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards-the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American cultures inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is
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