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House of Horrors : Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction - Agnieszka Kotwasinska

House of Horrors

Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction

By: Agnieszka Kotwasinska

Hardcover | 30 November 2023 | Edition Number 1

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This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women's fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters - haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings - but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most intimate of all social relationships - the family - supports and replicates social hierarchies, exclusions, and struggles for dominance, the book problematises the source of horror. The consideration of horror narratives through the lens of familial intimacies makes it possible to rethink genre boundaries, to question the efficacy of certain genre tropes, and to consider the contribution of such diverse authors as Kathe Koja, Tananarive Due, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elizabeth Engstrom, Sara Gran and Caitlin R. Kiernan.
Industry Reviews
"Theoretically savvy and demonstrating an impressive command of Gothic Horror, Kotwasinska's analysis of kinship, intimacy, and corporeality in women's horror makes clear how ideas of family often act as sources of dread rather than comfort in the work of Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tananarive Due and others. This is an essential contribution to the study of modern horror."-- "Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University"

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