American Folk Horrors
Golygydd(ion) Dawn Keetley
Iaith: Saesneg
Dosbarthiad(au): Folklore and Myth
Cyfres: Horror Studies
- Mawrth 2027 · 432 tudalen ·216x138mm
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While the preponderance of writing about folk horror focuses on the British tradition, this volume centres the key folk horror texts and concepts that constitute folk horror in the Americas. Along with the regionally-based readings of individual chapters (which range from New England, Manhattan, the Deep South and the midwestern exurbs of the US to the Mexican and Canadian borderlands and Argentina), the collection uncovers the common thread in American folk horror, whereby the narrative does not circle around the settled, organic, rural community. Chapters in this collection repeatedly demonstrate an eerie absence of ‘folk’ and a profound liminality; here, there are migrations, movement and border-crossings. In folk horror of the Americas, the ‘folk’ are often already displaced, present only in the traces they have left behind. And even as the collection moves toward chapters that do propose communities of resistant ‘folk’, constituted in the face of oppressive national ideologies, they too are fragile and ephemeral communities.
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Introduction: American Folk Horrors
Dawn Keetley
1. ‘Even Natives Were Afraid of This Place’: American Folk Horror and Colonialism
Bethany Doane
2. Lithic Folk Horror
Dawn Keetley
3. Because This is America: Gendered Crises of Futurity in US Frontier Folk Horror
Emily Naser-Hall
4. ‘We Won’t be Hungry Much Longer’: Survival Cannibalism and North American Folk Horror
Bernice M. Murphy
5. Facing Folk Horror in (1999): Becoming Loss
Amira Shokr
6. ‘It’s (Not) Just Land’: Agency, Landscape and New Materialism in Folk Horror Podcasts
Kit Bauserman
7. ‘Mohawk this guy’: New York Wyrd in (1985)
Robert Edgar
8. Hidden New York: Strange Folk and the Urban Weird in (2022) and (2023)
Nina K. Martin
9. The Warlock in the Shadows: Hauntology and Argentinean History in Cristian Ponce’s (2020)
Emiliano Aguilar and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
10. American Vocabularies of the Supernatural: Between Stephen King and Mariana Enríquez
Andrés Emil González
11. ‘An Open-Source Legend’: Digital Folk Horror in Jane Schoenbrun’s (2021) and (2018)
Ellen Boyd and Lauren Gilmore
12. We the Folk: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Populism and the People in US Folk Horror
Jimmy Packham
13.American Idealism in the Folkloric Past of (1941)
Brandon R. Grafius
14. Subversive Social Commentary from the Rural Deep South in Frank De Felitta’s (1981)
Beth Kattelman
15. Folk Bubbles: The Regime of Post-Truth in US Folk Horror
Max Jokschus
16.Mexican Folk Horror in the Borderlands: Sandra Cisneros Rewriting American Folklore and Feminism
Anne-Marie Evans
17. Save the Rougarou! . . . and the Wetlands: Cajun Folk Horror and Environmental Activism in America’s Petroleum Sacrifice Zone
Sara L. Crosby
18. ‘No me gusta la domesticación’: Folk Horror as a Punk Battleground in (2022)
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
19. ‘We brought this with us from home’: African American Folk Horror in (2025)
Tim Rideout
20. Black and Indigenous Necro-Zones in North American Zombie Folk Horror
Isaiah Frost Rivera
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Awdur(on): Dawn Keetley