Haunted property: slavery and the gothic
Auteur :
Ford, Sarah Gilbreath
Éditeur :
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN :
9781496829696
Date de publication :
30 août 2020
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
505 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools to portray the horrors of this nightmare.