Victor Sejour's short story "The Mulatto" from 1837 and Alice Walker's short story "The Little Girl Who Favorites Her Daughter" from her collection In Love and Trouble : Stories of Black Women in 1973 are great examples of African American Gothic that represent the complexity of racism within society and the theme of female sexuality. The stories have several themes in common that they address in distinct ways. For example, the representation of the slave community surrounding the main characters in “The Mulatto” is collaborative while, in “The Little Girl Who Favorites Her Daughter”, the protagonist seems to have chosen to remain aloof from the society to which he belongs. Another difference lies in their respective narrative strategies; “The Mulatto” allegorizes the plot, devoid of the gruesome narrative details of the treatment of slaves, which is in contrast to Walker's story which offers an intensely detailed account. Furthermore, “The Mulatto” addresses the macro issue of the subjugation of mixed-race slaves while “The Child Who Favored Daughter” explains the internal struggle of Africans in a free land. This racial struggle and their respective stories of violence result in the protagonists' current state of absolute madness, making the two stories a gothic tragedy. Although the two stories belong to the African-American gothic genre, a common ground of representation is the similarity between the two texts on the mistreatment of women, resulting from male desire that leads to their tragic end. The grim conditions that cripple women and the issues surrounding them, such as incestuous desires, support the plot of stories that illustrate assumptions of slavery, often reversed. Exploring ineffectual kinship and the American taboo of interracial sexual relationships, these st...... middle of paper ... deny altogether the possibility of proving their masters wrong. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Séjour, Victor. "The Mulatto." Translated by Philip Barnard. In The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd edition, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. More information at: http://southernspaces.org/2007/seeds-rebellion-plantation-fiction victor s% C3%A9jours-mulatto#sthash.zlNBWLx9.dpufWalker, Alice. "The boy who favored his daughter." In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women.Daut, Marlene. “"Sons of White Fathers": The Revenge of the Mulattos and the Haitian Revolution in "The Mulatto" by Victor Séjour” Nineteenth-Century Literature..Petry, Alice Hall. “Alice Walker: The Success of Short Fiction.” Modern Linguistic Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter, 1989), pp. 12-27 .