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(In)Human Anatomies: Constructions of Whiteness and Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

Avery, Katherine
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In the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - one of the most significant horror writers of the twentieth century, and an acknowledged white supremacist - racialized configurations Otherness are used to construct and inspire horror. At the same time, these racist and racializing narratives function to destabilize the privileged category whiteness, transgressing its boundaries, revealing its vulnerabilities, and disrupting its coherent self-construction.
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2019-05-01
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Lowry, Richard S.
Knight, Arthur L.
Ferrao, R. Benedito
McGovern, Charles F.
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