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03957aam a2200433 i 4500 001 5B6149982E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230328t20232023wlk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1837720126 020 $a 9781837720125 035 $a (OCoLC)1373827504 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d UNBCA $d OCLCO $d DLM $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS648.H6 $b K68 2023 082 04 $a 813.009164 $2 23 100 1 $a KotwasinÌska, Agnieszka, $e author. 245 10 $a House of horrors : $b familial intimacies in contemporary American horror fiction / $c Agnieszka KotwasinÌska. 264 1 $a Cardiff : $b University of Wales Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 231 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Horror studies 520 $a This volume demonstrates how contemporary American horror by women writers (and those whose output has been identified as women's fiction) is not limited to sparkling vampires, but is in fact a pulsating field bursting with genre-defying works spanning the last three decades. 520 $a "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 CaitlÃn R. Kiernan."--Page 4 of cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear -- Introduction -- Uncanny Houses -- Void Dreams in Dead in the Water -- Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher -- The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood -- Conclusion -- 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities -- Introduction -- Grotesque Bodies -- Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl -- Male Grotesque in Sineater -- Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens -- Conclusion -- 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions -- Introduction -- Towards Abjection -- Gilda's Sensual Vampires -- Escaping the 'Little Wife' in Black Ambrosia -- Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home -- Conclusion -- 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves -- Introduction -- The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction -- Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer -- The 'Wandering Subject' in The Between -- Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Horror tales, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x Women authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807099 650 7 $a Horror tales, American $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960399 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781837720149 830 0 $a Horror studies 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B6149982E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search