Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic

ISBN-13: 9781496829702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Sarah Gilbreath Ford

Opis

While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools to portray the horrors of this nightmare.