Prior studies of post-war American Gothic literature (and even
American horror films) have primarily interpreted Gothic cultural
production of the post-war period through a Cold War lens. Despite
legitimate reasons for such an approach, this emphasis has limited
inquiries into post-war fiction as well as our understanding of the
nation's complicated identity. While the federal government and its
investigative agencies may have been preoccupied with the so-called
'red menace' that threatened to spread across the planet, each
region of the country already possessed major strains of Gothic
fiction that focused on regional anxieties - namely of those
connected to women and minorities that threatened the region's
constructed identity and balance of power. The Haunted States of
America shifts the focus to these Gothic strains by examining how
the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of
several post-World War II writers can be best understood through
regional history and identity.
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