Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) - Softcover

Maisha Wester; Xavier Aldana Reyes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474440932 ISBN 13: 9781474440936

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post\-millennial Gothic. Covers key areas and themes of the post\-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic tradition. Consitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approach. Covers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer\x27s Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi\x27s White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin\x27s The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey\x27s The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante\x27s Cove (2005\-7), Hemlock Grove (2013\-15), Penny Dreadful (2014\-16) Black Mirror (2011\-) and even the Slenderman mythos. This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty\-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters \- including zombies, vampires and werewolves \- and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.

About this title

About the Author

Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave, 2012) and is currently writing a monograph on Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Culture (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press). Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge, 2016) and Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press, 2014). He is also the editor of Horror: A Literary History (British Library Publications, 2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon, co-edited with Dr Linnie Blake (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

From the Back Cover

The first transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters - including zombies, vampires and werewolves - and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic. Maisha Wester is Associate Professor in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474440932
• ISBN 13: 9781474440936
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336