@article{ref1,
title="The knowing of monstrosities: necropower, spectacular punishment and denial",
journal="Critical criminology",
year="2018",
author="Higgins, Ethan M. and Swartz, Kristin",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="91-106",
abstract="This study examines how newspaper accounts of criminality conceal and illuminate particular types of monstrosity in the postbellum United States. The paper offers an analysis of Gothicism--which typically frames the criminality of marginalized groups--as a technique of racial domination in narrative sites that construct knowledge on criminality and punishment. Analysis reveals a paradoxical lens of Gothicism in which oppressive groups can conceal monstrosity within a colonial context. The analysis of gothic accounts of criminality challenges the ways in which denial shapes modern monstrosity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1205-8629",
doi="10.1007/s10612-017-9382-7",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9382-7"
}