Chapter Four “Horror Written on Their Skin”: Joy Kogawa’s Gothic Uncanny

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic vii
4. Catholic Gothic: Atavism, Orientalism, and Generic Change in Charles De Guise’s Le Cap au diable 1
5. Viking Graves Revisited: Pre-Colonial Primitivism in Farley Mowat’s Northern Gothic 23
6. Coyote’s Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning 51
7. “Horror Written on Their Skin”: Joy Kogawa’s Gothic Uncanny 75
8. Familiar Ghosts: Feminist Postcolonial Gothic in Canada 97
9. Canadian Gothic and the Work of Ghosting in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees 125
10. A Ukrainian-Canadian Gothic?: Ethnic Angst in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Green Library 155
11. “Something not unlike enjoyment”: Gothicism, Catholicism, and Sexuality in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen 175
12. Rethinking the Canadian Gothic: Reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach 205
13. Beothuk Gothic: Michael Crummey’s River Thieves 229
14. Keeping the Gothic at (Sick) Bay: Reading the Transferences in Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures 251
15. Contributors 277
16. Index 281