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Decolonial Gothic :
Decolonial Gothic : Beyond the Postcolonial in Gothic Studies
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- Duncan, Rebecca (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för språk (SPR),Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
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- Edingburgh University Press, 2022
- 2022
- English.
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In: Gothic Studies. - : Edingburgh University Press. - 1362-7937 .- 2050-456X. ; 24:3, s. 304-322
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- This article theorises decolonial Gothic as a novel approach to Gothic fiction from formerly colonised regions and communities. It responds to an emerging body of Gothic production, which situates itself in a world shaped by persistently racialised distributions of social and environmental precarity, and where colonial power is thus an enduring material reality. To address such fiction, the article proposes, requires a reassessment of the hauntological frameworks through which Gothic and the (post)colonial have hitherto been brought into contact. Forged in the cultural climate of late-twentieth-century postmodernity, these hinge on the assumption of an epochal break, which renders colonial history a thing of the past; thus, they fall short of narratives that engage with active formations of colonial power. Accordingly, the article outlines an alternative approach, positioning Gothic fiction in the context of the capitalist world-system, which – into the present – is structured by colonial categories of race, heteropatriarchal categories of gender, and instrumentalising discourses of nature as plunderable resource.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)
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- Comparative literature
- Litteraturvetenskap
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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