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Selected Research on Black Genre Writing

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Carrington, André M. Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Clavin, Matt. “Race, Rebellion, and the Gothic: Inventing the Haitian Revolution”. Early American Studies, 5.1 (Spring 2007): 1-29.

Ford, Sarah Gilbreath. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic. University of Mississippi Press, 2020.

Nama, Adilifu. Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2008.

Taylor, Leila. Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul. Repeater Books, 2019.

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Wester, Maisha. African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places. Palgrave Macmillan: 2012.

Wester, Maisha. African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Wester, Maisha. “Black Diasporic Gothic”. In Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Eds. Maisha Wester and Xavier Aldana Reyes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. 289-303.

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