Race and the Gothic Monster: The Xenophobic Impulse of Louisa May Alcott's "Taming a Tartar".(Critical Essay) From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Derrickson, Teresa | COPYRIGHT 2001 University of Rhode Island. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In her study entitled Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, Judith Halberstam concludes her rereading of the Gothic monster by implicating more than just the horror genre in the veiled construction of social prejudice. Warning against the hegemonic impulse that runs deep in areas we fail to consider, she writes, "the violence of representation does not always lie in bloody scenes of carnage or in images of monstrosity. [It] more often works through well-meaning ...

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