Uncanny Youth (eBook)

Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas

Suzanne Manizza Roszak (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
208 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-868-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A literary study of childhood in the American Gothic. Childhood in Gothic literature has often served colonialist, white supremacist, and patriarchal ideologies, but in Uncanny Youth, Suzanne Manizza Roszak highlights hemispheric American writers who subvert these scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Conde to N. Scott Momaday and Tracey Baptiste, Gothic conventions critique systems of power in the Americas. As fictional children confront shifting configurations of imperialism and patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, their uncanny stories call on readers to reckon with intersecting forms of injustice.

Autor

Both undergraduate and graduate students as well as fellow scholars should find this book accessible.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Haunted Perennial Girlhoods

Chapter 2 – Cursed Pregnancies and Uncanny Children

Chapter 3 – Gothic Boyhoods and Adult Betrayals

Chapter 4 – The Teen Girls Aren’t Alright

Chapter 5 – Writing Gothic Scenes for Young Readers

Conclusion – Resistance, Resilience, and the Gothic Happy Ending

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Americas • Childhood • Gothic • Literary • Manizza • Roszak • suzanne • Uncanny • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-868-0 / 1786838680
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-868-1 / 9781786838681