Rereading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” as a Tale of Jim Crow America

Scholars have commonly placed Jackson’s fiction in the New England Gothic tradition. Her famous short story “The Lottery” is a case in point: universally seen as set in New England, it is often interpreted in the context of the region’s dark Puritan past. This contribution proposes a new context: th...

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Auteur principal: Bowers, Terence N.
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Langue:Anglais
Publié: Journal of the Short Story in English 2024
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