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Planetary Gothic: An Invitation

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements viii
  4. Introduction: Globalgothic beyond Globalisation 1
  5. Part I: Approaches
  6. 1. Decolonial Gothic 23
  7. 2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror and Weird 38
  8. 3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e 53
  9. 4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora 70
  10. 5. Engendering Globalgothic: The ‘Hideous Progeny’ of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 84
  11. 6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies 100
  12. 7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecohorror 114
  13. 8. Extractive Gothic 131
  14. Part II: Issues
  15. 9. US Imperial Gothic 151
  16. 10. Globalgothic and War 166
  17. 11. Terrorist Gothic 179
  18. 12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream 193
  19. 13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity 206
  20. 14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies 221
  21. 15. Pandemics and Globalgothic 236
  22. 16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market 250
  23. Part III: Modes
  24. 17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: From Britain to Brazil 267
  25. 18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism 280
  26. 19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing 295
  27. 20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic 309
  28. 21. Brexit Gothic 322
  29. 22. Online Gothic 337
  30. Part IV: Regions and Geographies
  31. 23. Gothic and the Global South 353
  32. 24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic 367
  33. 25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Narratives 380
  34. 26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers and the Aesthetics of Excess 395
  35. 27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic 411
  36. 28. Desert Globalgothic 425
  37. 29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu’s The House of Rajani and Ayman Sikseck’s Tishrin 440
  38. 30. Nordic Gothic 455
  39. 31. ‘In Brussels no one can hear you scream’: EU Gothic 468
  40. Coda
  41. Planetary Gothic: An Invitation 485
  42. Notes on Contributors 495
  43. Index 502
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements viii
  4. Introduction: Globalgothic beyond Globalisation 1
  5. Part I: Approaches
  6. 1. Decolonial Gothic 23
  7. 2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror and Weird 38
  8. 3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e 53
  9. 4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora 70
  10. 5. Engendering Globalgothic: The ‘Hideous Progeny’ of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 84
  11. 6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies 100
  12. 7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecohorror 114
  13. 8. Extractive Gothic 131
  14. Part II: Issues
  15. 9. US Imperial Gothic 151
  16. 10. Globalgothic and War 166
  17. 11. Terrorist Gothic 179
  18. 12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream 193
  19. 13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity 206
  20. 14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies 221
  21. 15. Pandemics and Globalgothic 236
  22. 16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market 250
  23. Part III: Modes
  24. 17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: From Britain to Brazil 267
  25. 18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism 280
  26. 19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing 295
  27. 20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic 309
  28. 21. Brexit Gothic 322
  29. 22. Online Gothic 337
  30. Part IV: Regions and Geographies
  31. 23. Gothic and the Global South 353
  32. 24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic 367
  33. 25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Narratives 380
  34. 26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers and the Aesthetics of Excess 395
  35. 27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic 411
  36. 28. Desert Globalgothic 425
  37. 29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu’s The House of Rajani and Ayman Sikseck’s Tishrin 440
  38. 30. Nordic Gothic 455
  39. 31. ‘In Brussels no one can hear you scream’: EU Gothic 468
  40. Coda
  41. Planetary Gothic: An Invitation 485
  42. Notes on Contributors 495
  43. Index 502
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