Uncanny Youth: Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas

(Part of the Gothic Literary Studies Series)

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A literary study of childhood in the American Gothic.

Childhood in Gothic literature has often served colonialist, white supremacist, and patriarchal ideologies, but in Uncanny Youth, Suzanne Manizza Roszak highlights hemispheric American writers who subvert these scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Cond? to N. Scott Momaday and Tracey Baptiste, Gothic conventions critique systems of power in...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1786838664

ISBN13:9781786838667

Release Date:August 2022

Publisher:University of Wales Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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Uncanny Youth: Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas

(Part of the Gothic Literary Studies Series)

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