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
Popular author Matt Ruff, in his Afrofuturistic novel, Lovecraft Country (2016), melds Lovecraftian horror with the horrors of mid-twentieth century racism and links Lovecraft directly to Afrofuturism.
This novel has been praised for its use of Lovecraft’s
subject matter and tropes. But Horror
as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft examines these claims and shows that the Ruff
novel isn’t really Lovecraftian at all and, in fact, has little relevance to
either Lovecraft or his work.
John L. Steadman
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