So "Postcolonial Horror" is a thing.
I thought of the term, and of course, Google shows that it's been conceptualized, heck, analyzed already...
@intelligentwat @sillysyntax @IndrapramitDas @pdjeliclark @victorlavalle
I thought of the term, and of course, Google shows that it's been conceptualized, heck, analyzed already...
@intelligentwat @sillysyntax @IndrapramitDas @pdjeliclark @victorlavalle
So I guess what I'm doing is Caribbean Postcolonial Horror...
That's just fine by me.
That's just fine by me.
Someone puts @silviamg's 'Mexican Gothic' under the postcolonial knife...
jamishelves.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/whe…
jamishelves.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/whe…
Film...
theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/…
theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/…
a 'Global Postcolonial Horror' PDF:
academia.edu/43893035/Globa…
academia.edu/43893035/Globa…
YES...!!!
"Colonial and postcolonial Gothic: the Caribbean"
…hparavisinigebert.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/coloni…
"Colonial and postcolonial Gothic: the Caribbean"
…hparavisinigebert.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/coloni…
The 1st ever book I conceived is DEFINITELY Postcolonial Horror; a portion of said novel sold as a short story ('Mimosa vs The Soucouyant'), in @MaHelgad's "American Monsters"
I guess I am doing Postcolonial Caribbean Gothicv as well...?
I guess I am doing Postcolonial Caribbean Gothicv as well...?
LOTS of papers on this subject. Oi...
lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.j…
lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.j…
Bollywood Horror as an Uncanny Public Sphere: Genre Theories, Postcolonial Concepts, and the Insightful Audience:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
The postcolonial Gothic:
cambridge.org/core/books/abs…
cambridge.org/core/books/abs…
Africa Speaks?: Black MOnsters and Revisionary History in Horror Films:
openjournals.bsu.edu/dlr/article/vi…
openjournals.bsu.edu/dlr/article/vi…
Speculative Fiction and the Politics of Postcolonialism, 2001 (PDF):
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arie…
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arie…
"Horror Written On Their Skin": Joy Kogawa's Gothic Uncanny:
researchonline.nd.edu.au/arts_chapters/…
researchonline.nd.edu.au/arts_chapters/…
The 1930s Horror Adventure Film on Location in Jamaica: ‘Jungle Gods’, ‘Voodoo Drums’ and ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ in the ‘Secret Places of Paradise Island’
mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/2…
mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/2…
Postcolonial Gothic, Cambridge University:
academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scho…
academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scho…
@SGJ72's work is analysed, yet another person I forgot to tag, damnit:
“'My Heart Is A Chainsaw' is Slashing up the Horror Genre"
imaginatlas.ca/my-heart-is-a-…
“'My Heart Is A Chainsaw' is Slashing up the Horror Genre"
imaginatlas.ca/my-heart-is-a-…
Film again:
naughtthought.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/hor…
naughtthought.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/hor…
Let me just say here that becuse of my background in computers, I know to go beyond the first two Google 'pages' to get to the meat of what you're searching.
Anyway.
Continuing...
Anyway.
Continuing...
Ooh...
JUICY; film again...
‘Good Madam’ (2021) review: Post-colonial South African psychological horror
A subtle look at the legacies of apartheid
aiptcomics.com/2022/07/11/goo…
JUICY; film again...
‘Good Madam’ (2021) review: Post-colonial South African psychological horror
A subtle look at the legacies of apartheid
aiptcomics.com/2022/07/11/goo…
Iiiinteresting...
Talisman or Curse: Cultural Distortion in Horror Narrative of “The Monkey’s Paw”:
flr-journal.org/index.php/ccc/…
Talisman or Curse: Cultural Distortion in Horror Narrative of “The Monkey’s Paw”:
flr-journal.org/index.php/ccc/…
C.3 Sacred to Death: On Horror, Art, and Colonialism:
uaac-aauc.com/2021/c3.html
uaac-aauc.com/2021/c3.html
I'm making this thread as much to show to others as to bookmark shit for my own reading.
FYI.
Continuing.
FYI.
Continuing.
Movie review: “White Material” paints vivid, dreamlike horror of post-colonial Africa:
denverpost.com/2010/12/15/mov…
denverpost.com/2010/12/15/mov…
I WAS WONDERING WHERE THE MATERIAL FOR THIS REGON WAS AT...!
9 pages in or something, in Google search
"DARK PLACE Trailer: Emerging Aboriginal Filmmakers Tackle Post-Colonial Australia in Horror Anthology":
screenanarchy.com/2020/01/dark-p…
9 pages in or something, in Google search
"DARK PLACE Trailer: Emerging Aboriginal Filmmakers Tackle Post-Colonial Australia in Horror Anthology":
screenanarchy.com/2020/01/dark-p…
Well, shit.
Nice to know this exists.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival:
events.umich.edu/event/99808
Nice to know this exists.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival:
events.umich.edu/event/99808
Oh MY GOD.
@usmantm, sorry!
Ok my brain at this ungodly hour of the morning is not getting everyone I can recall, who writes in this vein...
@usmantm, sorry!
Ok my brain at this ungodly hour of the morning is not getting everyone I can recall, who writes in this vein...
Of course Avatar has to be discussed, even though it's not 'horror', so here's the one time I'll deign to mention that film:
engl243.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/ava…
engl243.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/ava…
The experience of Postcolonialism *IS* horror, isn't it....?
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mov…
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/mov…
There's tons of mentions of "Heart Of Darkness"
I'm trying to get the rest of the discusssion in these links in this thread.
I'm trying to get the rest of the discusssion in these links in this thread.
Looks like a good one here.
"...and how horror films indirectly explored both the continuing trauma of colonial violence and lingering emotional ties to the colonial order."
library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…
"...and how horror films indirectly explored both the continuing trauma of colonial violence and lingering emotional ties to the colonial order."
library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…
The Republic of Sin – A Post-Colonial Horror Fantasy:
republicofsin.com/2017/05/18/epi…
republicofsin.com/2017/05/18/epi…
"Themes of exploitation, environmental degradation and overall loss make this something more than a cheesy late August monster movie" (The movie 'Beast'):
observer.com/2022/08/beast-…
observer.com/2022/08/beast-…
Finally, I find something discussing Helen Oyeyemi:
horrorhomeroom.com/helen-oyeyemis…
horrorhomeroom.com/helen-oyeyemis…
WHAT
(...wow..?!)
I'm not upgrading & paying to see where I'm mentioned, as amazed as I am about this...)
(...wow..?!)
I'm not upgrading & paying to see where I'm mentioned, as amazed as I am about this...)
About TIME I saw disability mentioned as an intersectionality:
scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/cor…
scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/cor…
V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison are compared under a postcolonial lens:
rowman.com/ISBN/978166692…
rowman.com/ISBN/978166692…
"Blood Quantum’s Jeff Barnaby on the history and horror of his Indigenous zombie movie: ‘I feel like I barely got out of this one alive’":
Interesting.
Forgive me if you know of this @SGJ72, but tagging you just in case...
theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…
Interesting.
Forgive me if you know of this @SGJ72, but tagging you just in case...
theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…
Bloodborne VS Lovecraft: A Post Colonial Analysis:
burnttongueblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/blo…
burnttongueblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/blo…
De-Westernizing Horror: Reframing the Genre Cinemas of Asia:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/21…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/21…
@sillysyntax, you might find this of particular interest?
"The Gothic mode, infused with anxieties about space, time, & haunting, present writers with an apt literary space for dealing with similar anxieties in the colonial & postcolonial worlds
literatureadelaide.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/the…
"The Gothic mode, infused with anxieties about space, time, & haunting, present writers with an apt literary space for dealing with similar anxieties in the colonial & postcolonial worlds
literatureadelaide.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/the…
Jeff Barnaby on Blood Quantum and colonialist zombies:
seventh-row.com/2020/04/28/jef…
seventh-row.com/2020/04/28/jef…
OK. WHY ISN'T THIS NEAR THE FIRSTGOOGLE PAGES..?!
Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion | Edition 1
barnesandnoble.com/w/terror-and-t…
Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion | Edition 1
barnesandnoble.com/w/terror-and-t…
"THE REPRESENTATION OF THE POST COLONIAL INHERITANCE IN THE FILM GET OUT (2017) #BLACKLIVESMATTER":
themediastudentsblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/the…
themediastudentsblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/the…
Film again...
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with 5 Horror Films that Challenge the Colonial Mindset:
dreadcentral.com/editorials/439…
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with 5 Horror Films that Challenge the Colonial Mindset:
dreadcentral.com/editorials/439…
Ok that seems to be it.
PHEW!
Take your time absorbing all of these.
thanks for your interest and patience.
PHEW!
Take your time absorbing all of these.
thanks for your interest and patience.
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