Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

Leila Taylor

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Watkins Media
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 November 2019
Pages
206
ISBN
9781912248544

Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul

Leila Taylor

Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes the ways it relates to race in twenty-first-century America

Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards-the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.

Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly- Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.

If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?

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