Johan Höglund

The American Imperial Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317045182
• Artikelnr.: 44865039

Autorenporträt

Johan Höglund is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is a member of Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Postcolonial Studies and his most recent publications include Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood (2012), 'Parables for the Paranoid: Affect and the War Gothic' in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (2013) and 'Black Englishness and the Concurrent Voices of Richard Marsh in The Surprising Husband' in English Literature in Transition (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction: the American imperial gothic
Imperial frontier gothic
The gothic of benevolent assimilation
Cold War horror
Post-Vietnam gothic
11 September and the gothic war on terror
Afghanistan, Iraq and the new frontiers of the imperial gothic
Militarising the virtual gothic
Tales of torture and invasion
The imperial gothic of the post-Apocalypse
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.