Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic
Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic
This chapter focuses on Oates’s exploration of the political and economic implications of Schoolhouse Gothic. This subgenre takes up schooling through gothic preoccupations with the tyranny of history, terrors of physical or mental confinement, reification, and miscreation. Schools are haunted or cursed by persistent power inequities (of race, gender, class), even by the Enlightenment itself which, in its attempt to rescue Western civilization from its dark past, betrayed an even darker compulsion to dissect, define, and dominate nature and humanity alike.
Keywords: Gothic, Schoolhouse Gothic, Joyce Carol Oates, Southern Gothic
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