“Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia.” In: Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising, edited by R. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press. Lovecraft: A Symposium.” Riverside Quarterly, 2–17. Lovecraft and the Anatomy of the Nothingness: The Cthulhu Mythos.” Semiotica 150 (4): 363–418. ” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 52 (3): 231–32, (accessed July 14, 2020). “The Darker Islam within the American Gothic: Sufi Motifs in the Stories of H.P. This abating distance, the article suggests, is where Lovecraftian themes of the monstrous take hold by establishing an American variant of Orientalism that perforates the boundaries between whiteness and Otherness through the lens of nonwhite immigration during the first decades of the twentieth century.Īlmond, I. Accelerating industrialization, globalizing trade, imperialism, and the advent of modernity diminished the epistemic and spatial distance needed to uphold these fantasies. In colonial times, when it functioned mainly as an outlet for accumulated domestic issues and tabooed fantasies, the Orient appeared as a safe space that could be conjured or ignored at will. This article traces the story’s depictions of Orientalized Others and hybrid identities to themes of spatial transgressions as well as distortions of language and western rationality. Lovecraft’s horror novella “The Shadow over Innsmouth” (1936), the incursions of ‘exotic’ cultural and religious practices result in an isolated New England community’s moral and genetic degeneration.
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