Contemporary Gothic 1981-present

Question 1

1982

Answer 1

Kristeva’s Power of Horror introduces concept of abjection

Question 2

1984

Answer 2

Banks’ The Wasp Factory features unreliable narrator, gender confusion and ritualistic violence

Question 3

1987

Answer 3

Morrison’s Beloved Southern Gothic, trauma of slavery haunting the present

Question 4

1991

Answer 4

Ellis’ American Psycho satirises consumer culture through extreme violence and psychological fragmentation

Question 5

1993

Answer 5

Botting’s Gothic establishes contemporary critical framework for the genre

Question 6

2000

Answer 6

Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl blends Nigerian mythology with Gothic convention of the uncanny child

Question 7

2006

Answer 7

Emergence of social media generates Gothic narratives of surveillance and digital hauntings

Question 8

2014

Answer 8

Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing continues Southern Gothic tradition with spectral manifestations

Question 9

2019

Answer 9

Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic incorporates post colonial themes with traditional Gothic tropes

Question 10

2020

Answer 10

COVID-19 pandemic revives Gothic themes of contagion, isolation and invisible threats

Question 11

CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC OVERALL

Answer 11

Psychological fragmentation

Body horror

Technological anxiety