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Postcolonial Horror

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In “Postcolonial Horror,” Tabish Khair looks at the writing of horror in postcolonial fiction, arguing that the cultural premises and biological myths of horror are perforce controverted in the process by the best postcolonial authors.

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  1. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Tabish Khair

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  1. Department of English, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Kevin Corstorphine

  2. Department of Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD, USA

    Laura R. Kremmel

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Khair, T. (2018). Postcolonial Horror. In: Corstorphine, K., Kremmel, L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4_33

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