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

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 Cond? 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786838664
• ISBN13: 9781786838667
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"