TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wilke, Heinrich
T1  - Character and perspective in cosmic horror
BT  - Lovecraft and Kiernan
JF  - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur
N2  - Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective.
KW  - cosmic horror
KW  - H. P. Lovecraft
KW  - Caitlin R. Kiernan
KW  - race and whiteness
KW  - fiction
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2038
SN  - 0044-2305
SN  - 2196-4726
VL  - 69
IS  - 2
SP  - 173
EP  - 190
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
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