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“If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in Lovecraft Country

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Colleen Tripp
Department of English, California State University at Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330-8248, USA
Humanities 2025, 14(3), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030048
Submission received: 10 January 2025 / Revised: 25 February 2025 / Accepted: 28 February 2025 / Published: 2 March 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Legacy of Gothic Tradition in Horror Fiction)
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Bridging the horrors of the Black American experience with the literary legacies of the postfeminist Gothic, Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country comments on the deformation of time and space for Black women. Reflecting the historic preoccupation of the Gothic with the social anxieties of gender and sexuality, many of Lovecraft Country’s chapters center on economically or socially mobile Black women and respond to the contemporary conditions of the postfeminist Gothic and intersectional discourses of race, class, and gender. In the end, Lovecraft Country signals White patriarchal colonial geography as weird and represents its Black women characters as figuratively undead modern subjects due to intersectional oppression.
Keywords: weird fiction; American literature; the Gothic; feminism weird fiction; American literature; the Gothic; feminism

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Tripp, C. “If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in Lovecraft Country. Humanities 2025, 14, 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030048

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Tripp C. “If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in Lovecraft Country. Humanities. 2025; 14(3):48. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030048

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Tripp, Colleen. 2025. "“If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in Lovecraft Country" Humanities 14, no. 3: 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030048

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Tripp, C. (2025). “If I Ain’t a Man Anymore, How’s That Different from Just Being Dead?”: The Postfeminist Gothic in Lovecraft Country. Humanities, 14(3), 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14030048

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