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Canadian Gothic
Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention
Introduction
This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada.
It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context.
Canadian Gothic and Its Context
On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of the British Gothic tradition to the colonies; on the other, they turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential.
Post-Colonial Perspectives
After charting this history of Gothic infusion, Canadian Gothic turns its attention to the body of Aboriginal and diasporic writings that respond to this discourse of national self-invention from a post-colonial perspective.
These counter-narratives unsettle the naturalising force of this invented history, rendering the sense of Gothic comfort newly strange.
The Nature of Canadian Gothic
The Canadian Gothic tradition has thus been a conflicted one, which reimagines the Gothic as a form of cultural sustenance.
Conclusion
This volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.
