![]() ![]() Diverse gothic horror must:Īfter receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Other characteristics, regardless of relevance to the main plot, can include sleeplike and deathlike states, live burials, doubles, unnatural echoes or silences, the discovery of obscured family ties, unintelligible writings, and nocturnal landscapes and dreams.įollowing the definitions of “diverse” and “gothic fiction” we’ve laid out, I created this list using the following criteria. ![]() The form of a Gothic story is usually discontinuous and convoluted, often incorporating tales within tales, changing narrators, and framing devices such as discovered manuscripts or interpolated histories. The depiction of horrible events in Gothic fiction often serves as a metaphorical expression of psychological or social conflicts. The atmosphere is typically claustrophobic, and common plot elements include vengeful persecution, imprisonment, and murder. Especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, characteristic settings include castles, religious buildings like monasteries and convents, and crypts. The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. Gothic fiction is distinguished from other forms of scary or supernatural stories, such as fairy tales, by the specific theme of the present being haunted by the past. Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. So there.) According to them, “an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present” are what categorize gothic horror or gothic fiction. (And in my defense, the Wikipedia entry on gothic horror cites The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Cambridge to Gothic Fiction. ![]() In addition, books by non-marginalised authors about a character with a marginalised identity are not considered ‘diverse books’.Īs for the definition of gothic horror, I turned to my good old friend Wikipedia. Books by cis, heterosexual, abled/neurotypical, white women will not be considered ‘diverse books’. Works by marginalised authors not necessarily about marginalised characters also count as ‘diverse books’. This readathon defines a ‘diverse’ book as a book that is written by an author with a marginalised identity – this can include being a person of colour and/or indigenous, disabled, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ and/or gender diverse, or intersections of these identities – about characters with marginalised identities. ![]()
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