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Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated.
18. Okt. 2020 · The New Urban Gothic looks to the intersections of time, space and media when examining the different and shifting meanings that arise from contemporary texts that draw on the tradition of the Victorian urban Gothic in their storytelling.
- Holly-Gale Millette
- H.Millette@soton.ac.uk
- 2020
With an unusually optimistic tone, Slavin argues that The Ministry of Utmost Happiness uses the new urban Gothic sites of Delhi and Srinagar to translate colonial and Gothic conventions for productive, justice-oriented purposes in contemporary South Asian cities.
Gothic fictions including Contemporary women’s Gothic fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, and numerous articles on women’s vampire writing, and
17. Okt. 2020 · This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space....
Examining the different and shifting meanings that arise from contemporary fictions that use the legacy of Victorian Urban Gothic in their storytelling, the volume looks at the intersections of time, place, space and media in a Global context.
Divided into three sections―Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic―The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media.
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