Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion

by Maisha Wester (Editor), Xavier Aldana Reyes (Editor)

Overview

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post—millennial Gothic
Key Features
Covers key areas and themes of the post—millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approachCovers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi’s White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin’s The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante’s Cove (2005–7), Hemlock Grove (2013–15), Penny Dreadful (2014–16) Black Mirror (2011–) and even the Slenderman mythos.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474440929
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Series:	Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

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).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: 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 ContributorsIndex.

What People are Saying About This

University of Arizona Jerrold E. Hogle

Sweepingly comprehensive and well-organised into twenty definitive essays, this collection is the book for orienting students, teachers and lay readers to the multifarious forms the Gothic has taken since 2000 – while revealing the earlier roots and cultural conflicts behind each – across a wide range of media and all over the world.

University of Stirling Justin D. Edwards

This is an excellent resource for scholars and students of contemporary Gothic literature and culture. With chapters by world-leading experts on cutting-edge topics such as digital Gothic, posthuman Gothic, steampunk, the New Weird and many more, this book will be a go-to volume for many years to come.

Editorial Reviews

This is an excellent resource for scholars and students of contemporary Gothic literature and culture. With chapters by world—leading experts on cutting—edge topics such as digital Gothic, posthuman Gothic, steampunk, the New Weird and many more, this book will be a go—to volume for many years to come.

University of Stirling Justin D. Edwards

Sweepingly comprehensive and well—organised into twenty definitive essays, this collection is the book for orienting students, teachers and lay readers to the multifarious forms the Gothic has taken since 2000 – while revealing the earlier roots and cultural conflicts behind each – across a wide range of media and all over the world.

University of Arizona Jerrold E. Hogle