#maisha l wester

[gothicseverance]

Dark villains who never tire of chasing hapless maidens through a seeming maze of forests, halls, or shadows.

—African American Gothic

Art by 🖤nearlywitxh🖤

[gothicseverance]

Abjection is the process in which we essentially ‘kill parts of ourselves in order to be.’

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

While heroes and heroines must confront the monstrous, they must also confront the overwhelming authority of society.

—African American Gothic

Art by @riseandfallofsecunit 🖤

[gothicseverance]

Black texts (...) look at the institutions that marked them as savage, look at the reasons for the hiding and the historical moment of silencing.

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

In Kristeva’s rendering of abjection, the father’s (...) demands imprison the child, requiring the child to kill the desiring part of the self.

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

The need to recognize black use of gothic tropes.

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

Twisted, yet uncannily familiar, landscapes.

—African American Gothic

Still by Ben Stiller 🖤

[gothicseverance]

Black Gothic (…) reveals the archetypal depictions of racial, sexual, and gendered others as constructions useful in the production of white patriarchal dominance.

—African American Gothic