Savage Horrors: The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic

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Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4 Download chapter (PDF)
Contents Full access Pages 5 - 6 Download chapter (PDF)
Acknowledgments No access Pages 7 - 8
Abbreviations No access Pages 9 - 10
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 24
What Is the Gothic? No access Pages 27 - 56
British Origins of the Savage Villain/ Civil Hero Gotheme No access Pages 57 - 74
Early WASP American Adaptations No access Pages 77 - 100
Contemporary WASP American Iterations No access Pages 101 - 140
Innovation and Resistance: The SV/CH Gotheme in Black Writing, 1789 to 1861 No access Pages 143 - 202
African American Gothic Today: Black Tradition and Reiterative Practices No access Pages 203 - 252
Epilogue: The American Gothic, Raciality, and the Possibility of Reiterative "Unthought" No access Pages 253 - 258
Works Cited No access Pages 259 - 288