Greetings Everyone!
My new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft:
White Fragility in the Weird Tales, was recently published by
Bloomsbury! I hope that all of you will
pick up a copy!
In a previous posting, I have described Lovecraft’s
first racist narrative: the miscegenation narrative. In his later fiction, Lovecraft develops a
second racist narrative—the slave master/slave narrative, which is drawn from
Lovecraft’s knowledge of the Atlantic slave trade in colonial times.
Lovecraft uses
this narrative to promote the practice
of slavery. He holds up the alien
astronaut civilizations, the Mi-Go, the Elder Things and the Great Race, all of
whom enslaved weaker races, as ideal civilizations — the highest, most advanced
civilizations in the cosmos, in fact.
Since these civilizations kept slaves, or so the argument goes, the
Anglo Saxon race should feel no compunctions about doing likewise.
Check out my book for analysis of how Lovecraft uses
his slave master/slave narrative in his great, science fiction masterpieces:
“The Whisperer in Darkness,” “The Shadow Out of Time,” and At the Mountains of Madness!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107706/
JLS
