Gothic Inheritances in Oceania
Abstract
The settler colonies of Australia and New Zealand (Aotearoa) occupy dominant positions within the Oceanian region, though this centrality is in part an effect of relationships with surrounding island nations. Reading comparatively across a selection of Oceanian texts, this chapter asks how gothic interludes encode these sometimes-obscured connections, exclusions, and intraregional imperial histories, thus examining gothic as a lexicon in which to map an archipelagic unconscious.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
Australian History and Society
Literature: history
themes
analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 225–241
- Publication date
- 30 January 2026
- Document type
- Book chapter