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Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Summary
Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analyzing the ways it relates to race in America in the 21st century. 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: Black History 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 deaths feed 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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