Asian Gothic
This topic was the first ever podcast I ever created, and was the reason why I began it. Thus, this topic really is rather dear to my heart. Today, on this blog, I would like to share with you the original script, which unlike the others was handwritten. This won't just be a transcript, but a revisit of the topic, a bit more than a year later. It all started in the summer of 2020, being a bit bored and wanting to find a platform where I could share my passion for literature, I decided to create this podcast. The name, I honestly can't remember whose idea it was, but it played with my English name Ann and the word 'annotations', which I believe to be a good one. As an A-level English Literature student, at the time, studying the Gothic, I was reading around the topic. This led me to the Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic, in which I found an essay titled 'Asian Gothic' by Katarzyna Ancuta. It was for me a great opportunity not only to furt