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Gothicize

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Goth·i·cize also goth·i·cize  (gth-sz)
tr.v. Goth·i·cized also goth·i·cized, Goth·i·ciz·ing also goth·i·ciz·ing, Goth·i·ciz·es also goth·i·ciz·es
To make Gothic.
Gothicize, Gothicise [ˈgɒθɪˌsaɪz]
vb
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (tr) to make Gothic in style
Gothicizer , Gothiciser n
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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.
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