African American Gothic and Horror Fiction: An Interview with Maisha Wester

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2022.3.1832

Keywords:

African American Gothic, horror, interview, Black bodies, race politics

Abstract

Maisha Wester is an Associate Professor in American Studies at Indiana University. She is also a British Academy Global Professor, hosted at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on racial discourses in Gothic fiction and Horror film, as well as appropriations of Gothic and Horror tropes in sociopolitical discourses of race. Her essays include “Gothic in and as Racial Discourse” (2014), “Et Tu Victor?: Interrogating the Master’s Responsibility to—and Betrayal of—the Slave in Frankenstein” (2020) and “Re-Scripting Blaxploitation Horror: Ganja and Hess’s Gothic Implications” (2018). She is author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (2012) and co-editor of Twenty-first Century Gothic(2019).

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Published

2022-05-15

How to Cite

Barba Guerrero, P. ., & Wester, M. (2022). African American Gothic and Horror Fiction: An Interview with Maisha Wester . REDEN. Revista Española De Estudios Norteamericanos, 3(2), 159-174. https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2022.3.1832