Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft
White Fragility in the Weird Tales
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 11 January 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9798765107683
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Language English 570
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Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction.
Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," John Steadman argues that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and anger towards non-white persons and was used to advocate for his racist, xenophobic political beliefs - that western civilization was in decline and slavery was justifiable among "superior" civilizations. In making these claims, Lovecraft's tales pit humans against extra-terrestrial aliens, developing a terrifying, futuristic vision of the Earth as a plantation planet.
The familiar image of Lovecraft as a reclusive, creative genius and mentor to young writer-friends is dismantled through close readings of his fiction and nonfiction - including correspondence, essays, and poetry - and examination of his early biography. This image is replaced by that of a cruel, callous, and, at times, psychotic man, a violently vitriolic racist and white supremacist who hated most of the non-white races.
While some will dismiss the author outright and others will read his fiction but ignore the racism, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft takes a middle ground: acknowledging Lovecraft's personal history and heinous intentions, it helps readers navigate the author's disturbing biography while also getting a better sense of the stories, which remain significant within American science fiction.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
1. Privilege Lost
2. The Pattern of Loss and Failure
3. Racist Influences
4. Racist Writings
Part II: Humankind against Hybrid, Degenerative Monsters
5. Lovecraft's Early Weird Tales
6. Arthur Jermyn (1920)
7. Herbert West - Reanimator (1922)
8. The Lurking Fear (1923)
9. The Rats in the Walls (1924)
10. The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
11. Critical Commentaries
Part III: Humankind against the Cosmic Slave Masters
12. Lovecraft's Later Weird Tales
13. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
14. The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
15. The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
16. At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
17. The Shadow Out of Time (1934)
18. Critical Commentaries (II)
19. Conclusion
Appendix - Lovecraft, Lovecraft Country and Afrofuturism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales
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