African American Gothic Screams from Shadowed Places

African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places is a new study of African American literary interventions into the gothic genre. The book investigates how African American authors have utilized the genre since its very beginnings in America to represent the real horrors of Black life in country haunted by racism. Re-reading major African American literary texts - such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora - African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.

Maisha L. Wester is an assistant professor of English and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.