English 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychoanalysis, Neurosis, Ernest Stoneman
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The gothic form reveals the cultural demons that are disturbing the pschye of society. Blackness as a symbol more than good and evil, but also significant of black bodies; it is a colour associated with darkness, but also now people. Toni morrison - romancing the shadow, in playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination. There is a sense that americans have that they are alienated. These are common in frontier writing, but they don"t exist just on their own, but in relation to the american experience of slavery. There is always this figure that they are different, and there is a tension, because it has an uncanny feeling. These are people who are like them in a way, but they are different enough to allow the american to say they are alienated from this kind of a person, and they compare themselves to others.