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The first transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic
This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters - including zombies, vampires and werewolves - and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.
Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Gothic in the Twenty-first Century, Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes; PART 1. UPDATING THE TRADITION; 1. Postcolonial Gothic, Sarah Ilott; 2. Queer Gothic, Andrew J. Owens; 3. Postfeminist Gothic, Gina Wisker; 4. Neoliberal Gothic, Linnie Blake; 5. Gothic Digital Technologies, Joseph Crawford; PART 2. CONTEMPORARY MONSTERS; 6. Contemporary Zombies, Xavier Aldana Reyes; 7. Contemporary Vampires, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; 8. Contemporary Serial Killers, Bernice M. Murphy; 9. Contemporary Ghosts, Murray Leeder; 10. Contemporary Werewolves, Kaja Franck and Sam George; PART 3. CONTEMPORARY SUBGENRES; 11. The New Weird, Carl H. Sederholm; 12. Ecogothic, Sharae Deckard; 13. Gothic Comedy, Catherine Spooner; 14. Steampunk, Claire Nally; 15. Posthuman Gothic, Anya Heise-von der Lippe; PART 4. ETHNOGOTHIC; 16. South African Gothic, Rebecca Duncan; 17. Asian Gothic, Katarzyna Ancuta; 18. Latin American Gothic, Enrique Ajuria Ibarra; 19. Aboriginal Gothic, Katrin Althans; 20. Black Diasporic Gothic, Maisha Wester; Notes on the Contributors; Index.
About the author
Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of
African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on
Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of
Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017),
Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and
Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of
Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and
Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
