California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream

California Gothic: The Dark Side of the DreamCalifornia Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a literary invention, a magic island, in a Spanish romance before conquistadors first visited the land. From early days to the present, the California dream of happiness in a land of new beginnings has been maintained by suppression of disturbing realities: above all, the destruction of native peoples;

political and historical thought of the period

This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption

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biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present

including ethnic conflict

Bloody Sunday was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated

as well as an overview of his work for television

revealing the hidden story of the Irish Emergency

can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew

This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland’s cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades

Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles

This book tells the story of Britain’s role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War