Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul By (author) Leila Taylor ISBN:9781912248544

Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul By Leila Taylor

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Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul By (author) Leila Taylor ISBN:9781912248544 Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.

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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- The Black American Gothic 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 romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?

Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul By (author) Leila Taylor ISBN:9781912248544

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Dimensions 130 × 197 mm
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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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