“If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in <i>Lovecraft Country</i>
Bridging the horrors of the Black American experience with the literary legacies of the postfeminist Gothic, Matt Ruff’s <i>Lovecraft Country</i> comments on the deformation of time and space for Black women. Reflecting the historic preoccupation of the Gothic with the social anxieties o...
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| description | Bridging the horrors of the Black American experience with the literary legacies of the postfeminist Gothic, Matt Ruff’s <i>Lovecraft Country</i> comments on the deformation of time and space for Black women. Reflecting the historic preoccupation of the Gothic with the social anxieties of gender and sexuality, many of <i>Lovecraft Country</i>’s chapters center on economically or socially mobile Black women and respond to the contemporary conditions of the postfeminist Gothic and intersectional discourses of race, class, and gender. In the end, <i>Lovecraft Country</i> signals White patriarchal colonial geography as weird and represents its Black women characters as figuratively undead modern subjects due to intersectional oppression. |
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