This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: The Enlightenment Gothic and Postcolonialism
1 Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin and the Discourse of Travel Literature
2 Charlotte Dacre’s Postcolonial Moor
3 'Frankenstein' and Devi’s Pterodactyl
4 Pushkin and Odoevsky: the ‘Afro- Finnish’ Theme in Russian Gothic
5 A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
6 Beyond Colonialism: Death and the Body in H. Rider Haggard
7 Horror, Circus and Orientalism
8 Burning Down the Master’s (Prison)-House: Revolution and Revelation in Colonial and Postcolonial Female Gothic
9 Crossing Boundaries: the Revision of Gothic Paradigms in 'Heat and Dust'
10 The Ghastly and the Ghostly: the Gothic Farce of Farrell’s ‘Empire Trilogy’
11 Arundhati Roy and the House of History
12 The Number of Magic Alternatives: Salman Rushdie’s 1001 Gothic Nights
13 Coetzee and the Animals: the Quest for Postcolonial Grace
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