Titlebook: Contemporary Women‘s Gothic Fiction; Carnival, Hauntings Gina Wisker Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Gothic

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,Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women’s Gothic—Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self-Deception,and misrepresent us. Munro’s Gothic tales are of vast open spaces and small constrained lives, escapes and performances which lead to dead ends. Gina Wisker explores how Margaret Atwood undercuts the tales by which people lead their lives, particularly, for Canadian women, that of Rapunzel, locked i

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Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due,anarive Due’s . (2006). It deals with the ways in which the Gothic exposes hidden painful histories of endemic racism, treatment of people as less than human because of their ethnicity and colour, and ways of breaking the silence, exposing the horrors, and rescripting life in order to move on. The t

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,Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard’s Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologising, Re-Mythol as ‘Bluebeard and his castle’ to suggest both the mind-set and the fabric of repressive patriarchal and colonial control, which the postcolonial Gothic helps to dismantle. African American/Canadian Trinidadian Nalo Hopkinson rewrites fairytales and cultural histories, revaluing Blackness and female

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Vampire Bites,ral context produces them. Sexier, better dressed and more able to pass as romantic leads than zombies, their use as a measure of the gendered cultural concerns and contradictions of time and place is so varied as to enable a simultaneous fascination and repulsion. They project what we desire and wh

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