The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness

Abstract

The Gothic and the postcolonial are obviously linked by a common preoccupation with the Other and aspects of Otherness. This preoccupation shares areas of concern, but it can also differ in significant ways, especially across the colonial/postcolonial1 discursive division. Hence, an examination of the ways colonial and post-colonial literatures within or influenced by the Gothic genre negotiate with and narrate (or fail to narrate) Otherness is a particularly fertile way to look again at postcolonialism and the Gothic.