The Gothic other : racial and social constructions in the literary imagination / edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik and Douglas L. Howard.

Contents White terror, black dreams : Gothic constructions of race in the nineteenth century / Eugenia DeLamotte -- Slavery and civic recovery : Gothic interventions in Whitman and Weld / Katherine Henry -- Cane : Jean Toomer's Gothic black modernism / Daphne Lamothe -- Mixed blood couples : monsters and miscegenation in U.S. horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Diseased states, public minds : Native American ghosts in early national literature / Renée L. Bergland -- Yellow peril, dark hero : Fu Manchu and the "Gothic bedevilment" of racist intent / Karen Kingsbury -- A return to the caves : E.M. Forster's Gothic passage / Douglas L. Howard -- Gothic routes, or the thrills of ethnography : Frances Calderon de la Barca's life in Mexico / Soledad Caballero -- The infamous Svengali : George du Maurier's satanic Jew / Ruth Bienstock Anolik -- The death of Zofloya, or, The Moor as epistemological limit / Stephanie Burley -- "The vampyre" : romantic metaphysics and the aristocratic other / Gavin Budge -- "Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's Schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin -- The cage of obscene birds : the myth of the southern garden in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom / Joseph Bodziock -- Gothic in the Himalayas : Powell and Pressburger's black Narcissus / John Stone -- Defanging Dracula : the disappearing other in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula / Erik Marshall.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004008618
ISBN0786418583 (softcover : alk. paper)

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