Full Description
This study contributes to the emerging field of Global Gothic. It focuses on the survival and evolution of Gothic subgenres and tropes in selected contemporary novels, produced in geographies and histories far away from its Western cradle. Some Gothic features identified as universal such as the relationship between space and character, the sublime, the process of Othering, uncanny doubles and the dissolution of identity are explored. This study maintains that the novels under scrutiny, written by a wide variety of authors such as Adiga, Desai, Ishiguro, Müller, Pamuk, Roberts and Rushdie, facilitate a fruitful dialogue between West and East under the sign of Gothic. A diverse critical apparatus is employed, including texts from Bhabha, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Mishra and others.
Contents
Contents: Tales of Labyrinths: The White Tiger and the Postcolonial Metamorphosis of Gothic - From Behind the Iron Curtain: Müller's Female Gothic - Lost in Bombay and Istanbul: Urban Gothic in Robert's Shantaram and Pamuk's The Black Book - Simply Gothic: Liminality and Blurring Boundaries in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go - The Sublime of the Intimate Others: Rushdie's Shame - Refracting Spaces in Desai's Fire on the Mountain and Bronte's Jane Eyre.
