Global indigenous horror

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"Global Indigenous Horror is a collection of essays that positions Indigenous Horror as more than just a genre, but as a narrative space where the spectral and social converge, where the uncanny becomes a critique, and the monstrous mirrors the human. While contentions swirl around the genre category, this exploratory anthology is the first critical edited collection dedicated solely to ways of theorizing and analyzing Indigenous Horror literatur...

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Écrivains autochtones Entretiens

Horreur dans la littérature

Horror in literature

Horror tales History and criticism

Indigenous authors Interviews

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Critiques littéraires Essays Literary criticism

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Horror & monstrosity studies series Horror and monstrosity studies series

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ISBN:

9781496856180 (pbk.)
9781496856180
9781496856173

Description:

xi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Preface / Shane Hawk
Part 1 Indigenous ways of theorizing.
"It runs in the family" : the rougarou as relative in contemporary Métis stories / June Scudeler
Oka-nada : historical contagion and haunting back in Jeff Barnaby's Blood quantum / Krista Collier-Jarvis
Ways of theorizing and transient phenomena (section I) / Naomi Simone Borwein
Ways of theorizing in practice (section II) / Naomi Simone Borwein
Part 2 Interrogating discourse and variations of Indigenous horror
Blak horror, Blak narratology, and Lisa Fuller's Ghost bird / Katrin Althans
Indigenous horror in Latin America / Persephone Braham
Part 3 Indigenizing gothic-horror aesthetics?
From silence to excess : Indigenous educational gothic / Jade Jenkinson
Indigenizing gothic comics : unsettling the colonial specter / Sabrina Zacharias
The bayonet scar : Judy Watson's Aboriginal gothic arts practice / Jayson Althofer
Part 4 Actualization-conceptualization : h/horror interviews with dark speculative writers self-identifying as Indigenous
Interview A : Shane Hawk
Interview B : Dan Rabarts
Interview C : Stephen Graham Jones
Interview D : Gregory C. Loui
Interview E : Gina Cole / Naomi Simone Borwein
Epilogue. Dis/insp/secting Global Indigenous horror / Naomi Simone Borwein, June Scudelier, Krista Collier-Jarvis, and Katrin Althans

LCCN:

2024041384

Control Number:

3399711

Other Authors:

Althans, Katrin
Althofer, Jayson
Borwein, Naomi Simone, editor, author
Braham, Persephone
Cole, Gina
Collier-Jarvis, Krista
Graham Jones, Stephen
Hawk, Shane
Jenkinson, Jade
Loui, Gregory C
Scudeler, June
Zacharias, Sabrina

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