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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.
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).
Summary
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.
