Mexican Gothic: A Mixed Review
I must (and, of course, will) tread carefully here, particularly as last week’s post was on the importance of highlighting and consuming Gothic media by non-white authors and creators, but it would be disingenuous of me to sing the praises of Mexican Gothic without cautioning against some of the glaring issues with the function (not the form) of the text.
Eurocentrism in The Gothic: Preliminary Threads
This was probably the right post to have formulated while on holiday in Ottawa, as although the city is beautiful, it is an absolute theme park of colonialism, and being surrounded by statues of European white men and buildings that emanated this fallacy of superiority was good motivation to tackle this topic.