Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory

As the Gothic has become established as a creditable field of enquiry in literary, film and cultural studies, among others, it has also expanded to emerging areas where it has proved to be a fertile mode of critique and theoretical analysis. Postcolonial Gothic is certainly one of these. Jerrold Hogle explains in this volume’s introduction that Gothic stories are often critical interventions, aesthetically unstable and engaging actively in theory themselves. Postcolonial Gothic writers are no exception. The postcolonial denotes the historical process of decolonisation and its aftermath, which during the mid-to-late twentieth century – following much resistance, struggle and anxiety