Date Thesis Awarded
5-2019
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Richard S. Lowry
Committee Members
Arthur L. Knight
R. Benedito Ferrao
Charles F. McGovern
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Avery, Katherine, "(In)Human Anatomies: Constructions of Whiteness and Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1329.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1329
