Uncanny Youth Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas - Gothic Literary Studies

Within the Euro-American literary tradition, Gothic stories of childhood and adolescence have often served as a tool for cultural propaganda, advancing colonialist, white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies. This book turns our attention to modern and contemporary Gothic texts by hemispheric American writers who have refigured uncanny youth in ways that invert these cultural scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Condé to N. Scott Momaday and Carmen Maria Machado, Gothic conventions become a means of critiquing pathological structures of power in the space of the Americas. As fictional children and adolescents defy persisting colonial and neo-imperialist architectures, navigate rigged systems of socioeconomic power, and attempt to frustrate patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, the uncanny and the nightmarish in their lives call on readers to reckon with and resist these intersecting forms of injustice.

ISBN:	9781786838667
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Imprint:	University of Wales Press
Published date:	15 May 2022
DEWEY:	809.38729
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	404g
Height:	145mm
Width:	223mm
Spine width:	21mm

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