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gothic, women ghost stories - Coggle Diagram
gothic
press the limit of rationality
beyond the reality
the supernatural
beyond reason, knowledge, control
disorienting extremes
anxious about historical continuity
historicity (where one belongs within history)
historicization (how one writes one’s self into history),
the constitution of an emergent national consciousness.
excess
Projecting Gothic absence onto Canada provided an illusory control over historical self-inscription
monsters: peoples’ early encounters with the unknown elements of the ‘new world’.
women ghost stories
hybrid
literary (m) / popular (f)
horror (m)/ romance (f)
experimental/formulaic
literary, artistic terror / changing cultural climate
private/public
against
romantic formula
celebration of heterosexual love/marriage
concern
injustice
women's experience
a haunting or supernatural e
a return of the dead/past