Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Taylor, Leila

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912248544)

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Format: Paperback
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Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Taylor, Leila

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

$14.95
Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Taylor, Leila

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America

Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards--the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.

Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.

If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

Author: Leila Taylor
ISBN-10: 1912248549
ISBN-13: 9781912248544
Publisher: Repeater
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/13/2019 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 01/03/2020
By Leila Taylor
By Leila Taylor
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Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She's given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. This is her first book.

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