Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

Title: Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul
Author: Leila Taylor
ISBN: 9781912248544
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 206
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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