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As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie : constructing community in contemporary American horror fiction
- Title
- As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie : constructing community in contemporary American horror fiction / Linda J. Holland-Toll.
- Author
- Holland-Toll, Linda J.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [2001], ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 297 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Two Parts Gore and One Pinch Walking Dead: What Exactly Is Horror Fiction? 2. How Does Is Work?: The Strategies of Exclusion as Structure -- Communities, Monsters, and "Us" 3. Hunting the Laughing Tiger: Communal Containment Strategies. 4. He and We as Monsters: Breaking Down the Monster Demarcations. 5. The Hidden Monster: Problems in Construction and Identity -- The Construction of Social Communities. 6. Affirmative Community: The Golden Retriever Lives! 7. Compromised Affirmations: Inhabiting the Corrupted Community. 8. The Discomfort Zone: We All Live on Maple Street -- Sorting Out Different Styles of Malignity. 9. Dystopias of the Human Heart: Apocalypse, Regeneration and Redemption. 10. Jailers of the Mind: Clapping the Mind-Forged Manacles on Ourselves and Others. 11. Dystopian Societies: Monstered Bodies, the Body Politic, and the Problems of Complicity. Coda: Worth Studying or Suitable for Wrapping the Garbage?
- ISBN
- 0879728515
- 0879728523 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001037998
- OCLC
- ocm47623808
- SCSB-4257183
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries