Charles L. Crow

California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples; and by events and facts such as the tragedy of the Donner Party, the persistence of poverty and crime in the golden land, disturbing crimes such as the Black Dahlia; and pandemics and ecological disaster. This book explores a rich Gothic tradition that exposes the repressed past and imagines the fates awaiting a failed California.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839983818
• Artikelnr.: 63388340

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Crow, Professor Emeritus of Bowling Green State University, has authored and edited studies of American regional literatures and of American Gothic.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Chapter One- Dreams of the Magic Island
Chapter Two- Ambrose Bierce and San Francisco's Gothic Frontier
Chapter Three- Lost Coasts
 Chapter Four- Disease, Pandemics, and the Monstrous
Chapter Five- The Shadow Line: Noir and California Gothic
Chapter Six- California Ecogothic: What's Buried in the Basement
Afterword