Uncanny Youth: Childhood, the Gothic, and the Literary Americas

Gothic Literary Studies

by Suzanne Manizza Roszak

A literary study of childhood in the American Gothic.
 
Childhood in Gothic literature has often served colonialist, white supremacist, and patriarchal ideologies, but in  Uncanny Youth , Suzanne Manizza Roszak highlights hemispheric American writers who subvert these scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Condé to N. Scott Momaday and Tracey Baptiste, Gothic conventions critique systems of power in the Americas. As fictional children confront shifting configurations of imperialism and patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, their uncanny stories call on readers to reckon with intersecting forms of injustice.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2022