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This seminar considers how Gothic literary conventions are articulated in contemporary American fiction and their film adaptations. Themes to be explored include how race, gender, sexuality, class are represented in such ways, as observed by Allan Lloyd Smith, where ‘American Gothic might be seen to offer a ‘voice’ for the culturally silenced, and the repressed events of American history’ (Lloyd-Smith, 2004: 26). Contingent on these issues, the Gothic elements of the uncanny and the grotesque come together in the texts to interrogate American cultural spaces in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Presentations will be a required part of the class. A reader will be made available. Students are required to have acquired the novels and read them before the class takes place.
• John Berendt. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 1994
[Film Adaptation: Clint Eastwood, 1997]
• Charlaine Harris. Dead till Dark. Ace. 2001
[HBO TV series True Blood, first episode DVD]
• Stephenie Meyer. Twilight.
[Film Adaptation : Catherine Hardwicke, 2008]
• Octavia Butler. Fledgling. Grand Central Publishing. 2007. |
