Gothic and Racism

The perception of the Other has changed while a predilection for othering has endured. Our primary goal with this collection of essays is to contribute to the nascent field of Postcolonial Gothic Studies, understood binomially as a postcolonial version of “Gothic studies” and as the study of “postcolonial Gothic.”

Gothic Horror and Racial Infection in Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Avishek Parui
Abramovitch’s The Mare: Russian Imperialism and the Yiddish Gothic Novel / Meital Orr
Strange Gods, Monstrous Aliens, and the Ignoble Savage: Racism and the Self/Other Dichotomy in the Gothic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft / Joanna Wilson
The Appropriation of the Gothic in Charlaine Harris’ Dead until Dark / Jessica E. Birch
Bigger Faustus: The Purpose of Diabolism in Richard Wright’s Native Son / Mark Henderson
Women of Colour in Queer(ed) Space: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees / Monalesia Earle
Return of the Slaveholding Repressed Past in Three Horror Films: Chloe, Love is Calling You (1934), Poor Pretty Eddie (1975), and White Dog (1982) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni, Mariana Zarate, and Patricia Vazquez
A House Divided: Post-Imperial Gothic in American Horror Story: Murder House (Fox TV, 2011) / Lance Hanson
Forever beyond the Forrest: Dracula and the Neo-Victorian Editors / Cristina Artenie
Mutiny Memorial: Imperial Gothic in Victorian Delhi / Ipshita Nath and Anubhav Pradhan