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The analysis aims to examine how Wells’s and Hopkins’s works utilize gothic elements to address racial injustices in the South.

April 24, 2026Open Access

Blood at the Root: Ida B. Wells’s and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Gothic Souths

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Literary analysis uncovers how gothic aesthetics critique racial narratives in the post-Reconstruction South.

The analysis aims to examine how Wells’s and Hopkins’s works utilize gothic elements to address racial injustices in the South.
Utilizes gothic theory to analyze literary elements
Compares the works of Wells and Hopkins
Explores intersections of race and gender in their texts
Both authors use gothic imagery to expose the horrors of slavery and racial violence.
Wells's and Hopkins's writings dismantle dominant white supremacist narratives.
Their works redefine the South's cultural landscape, highlighting themes of terror and death.

Marco Petrelli (2025) studied this question.

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