Greetings Everyone!
My new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales, has just been released by Bloomsbury, the foremost academic publisher in the United States and in the United Kingdom!
I hope that all of you will pick up a copy; you can order it online from the publishers and, of course, from Amazon and other online booksellers around the world. The book is also available in bookstores here in the states as well as overseas.
https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Racism-H-Lovecraft-Fragility/dp/B0C5CPHCR2
Lovecraft scholar Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, in his essay
“Tekeli-li: Poe, Lovecraft, and the Suspicion of Sameness” (2017) poses these
questions: “If the affective power of a text is derived from retrograde
sociopolitical points of view, to what extent is the reader who enjoys the
works implicated in approving of and disseminating those opinions? How, in short, should we read—and
teach—racist texts?”
After reading Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft, the
reader should be in a better position to answer these questions, and though a
few readers might find the answers easy, the majority, I think, will find them
even more difficult.
John L. Steadman
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