Imperialism and the abject Gothic double: Jane Goodwin Austin’s ‘After Three Thousand Years’
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Imperialism and the abject Gothic double: Jane Goodwin Austin’s ‘After Three Thousand Years’ | |
| Creator | Kreuiter, Allyson | |
| Description | Jane Goodwin Austin (1831–1894) published her short story ‘After Three Thousand Years’ in 1868. Austin’s tale is one of the first narratives to deal with a malevolent female mummy and what is known as the mummy’s curse. Her story has received limited critical attention unlike a similar story published by Louisa May Alcott in 1869, ‘Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy’s Curse’. This lack of scholarly attention makes Austin’s short story more interesting to the researcher than that of Alcott. In my article, I will perform a close reading of ‘After Three Thousand Years’, examining how the imperialist theme is intertwined with the abject Gothic doubling of the mummy and the female protagonists, which I consider to be central to the plot of Austin’s story. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2020-10-05 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v41i1.1697 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 41, No 1 (2020); 9 pages Literator; Vol 41, No 1 (2020); 9 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1697/3277
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1697/3276
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1697/3278
https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1697/3275
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