Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes the ways it relates to race in twenty-first-century America

Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards--the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.

Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: Blackness and America's Gothic Soul explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.

If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?

Author: Leila Taylor
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781912248544
ISBN10: 1912248549
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- History | African American & Black

About the Author
Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She's given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New School of Social Research. This is her first book.