The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
ISBN-10
1409449548
ISBN-13
9781409449546
Category
Social Science
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2014-04-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Johan Höglund

Description

Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.

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