Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972)

This is the English version of the same chapter in Spanish. In her review of the volume, Paloma Fresno Calleja states that:

Chapter 6, by María Teresa Ramos-García, one of the strongest in the volume, discusses two Gothic romances by Louise Bergstrom published in the early 1970s. Ramos-García argues that the stereotypical depiction of the few Spanish characters that appear in the novels reflects anxieties about interracial relations and miscegenation related to the US context at the time of the novels’ publication, and that proves the suitability of the Gothic mode to articulate such concerns. (236)