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Like did y’all know that several major scholars of the gothic discuss, in depth, how the rise of the debate about slavery and abolition coincided with the inception and rise of the gothic as a genre, and how that was by no means accidental and in fact greatly illuminates the gothic’s obsession with hauntings, bondage, ancestral curses, and doomed lineages? Of course not, cause y’all are too busy pulling reasons black people don’t belong in gothic stories out of your asses instead of reading

Maisha Wester writes almost exclusively about African American gothic; Liquid Blackness has an issue devoted to “Afro Gothic;” nearly every anthology post-2000 devoted to the gothic includes American gothic and how it differs from Europe in how the spectre of slavery and the “peculiar institution” of American racism haunts the text. while many point to the gothic originating in style with the Castle of Otranto and with Anne Radcliffe supplying the theoretical framework, the gothic is primarily about monstrous others, and in these United States, the monstrous other was/is Blackness. it is gothic.

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