Monstrous America: HBO’s True Blood as a Gothic/Fantastic Allegory

Year 2017, Issue: 46, 85 - 116, 01.04.2017

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Abstract

This article analyzes HBO’s True Blood as a subversive Gothic allegory for 21st century America. In its polysemic, excessive and hybrid universe, the show allows for different power discourses from American society to be explored. True Blood can be seen as a gothic/fantastic allegory that shows that the current debate surrounding American identity today—which is based on the idea that America entered a postracial phase—is nothing but a myth

Keywords

Gothic allegory, American identity, post-racial America, speciesism

Monstrous America: HBO’s True Blood as a Gothic/Fantastic Allegory

Abstract

Bu makale, HBO’nun 21. yüzyıl Amerika’sını anlatmak için ortaya çıkardığı True Blood adlı devrimsel Gotik alegorisini incelemektedir. Çokanlamlı, aşırılıklar içeren ve melez bir evrende geçen bu dizi, Amerikan toplumunda yer alan farklı güç söylemlerinin incelemesine olanak sağlamaktadır. True Blood, günümüz Amerikan kimliği çevresinde dönen ve ABD’nin ırkçılık-sonrası bir döneme girdiği düşüncesi üzerine kurulu mevcut tartışmaların bir efsaneden ibaret olduğunu sergileyen bir gotik/fantastic alegori olarak görülebilir

Keywords

Gotik alegori, Amerikan kimliği, ırkçılık-sonrası Amerika, türcülük

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