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Gothicize, Gothicise [ˈgɒθɪˌsaɪz] vb (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (tr) to make Gothic in style Gothicizer , Gothiciser n How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| However, in contrast to Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home" and Native Son, Toni Morrison's Beloved appropriates Dracula to gothicize the horrors of slavery and, more importantly, to defamiliarize the assumptions of 18th-and 19th-century rationalist discourse that elided blackness from essentialist arguments about what it means to be--and not be--fully human. The sanctioning of mob violence gothicizes the idea of justice by valorizing vigilantism as majority rule. Hence, Western texts, especially the imperial literatures of the nineteenth century, gothicize the colonized and enslaved. |
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