TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The knowing of monstrosities: necropower, spectacular punishment and denial
JO  - Critical criminology
A1  - Higgins, Ethan M.
A1  - Swartz, Kristin
SP  - 91
EP  - 106
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1205-8629
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9382-7
ID  - ref1
ER  -