The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere

✍ Scribed by Tabish Khair

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Part I: Introduction......Page 8
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness......Page 10
Part II: The Gothic and Otherness......Page 26
1 Ghosts from the Colonies......Page 28
2 The Devil and the Racial Other......Page 46
3 Heathcliff as Terrorist......Page 68
4 Smoke and Darkness: The Heart of Conrad......Page 79
5 Emotions and the Gothic......Page 93
Part III: Postcolonialism and Otherness......Page 106
6 Can the Other Speak?......Page 108
7 Negotiating Vodou: Some Caribbean Narratives of Otherness......Page 117
8 Can the ‘Other half’ Be Told? Brodber’s Myal......Page 129
9 The Option of Magical Realism......Page 139
10 Narration, Literary Language and the Post/Colonial......Page 154
Part IV: Conclusion......Page 162
Summing Up......Page 164
Notes......Page 182
Main Texts Cited......Page 192
C......Page 200
F......Page 201
L......Page 202
R......Page 203
W......Page 204
Z......Page 205