Abstract
This creative thesis examines the link between white supremacy, imperialism, and patriarchy as they are manifest in Silicon Valley. Using the marginalized form of the novella, the thesis challenges these frameworks by employing tropes from the traditionally feminine genre of the Gothic. These tropes include the constrained space of Silicon Valley (rendered here as the uncanny valley in a nod to Freudian readings of the Gothic); a troubled relationship between mother and daughter, with the former frequently absent; a series of events which border the supernatural; and the revelation of a mystery which has been previously concealed to preserve the female protagonist’s innocence. The paradoxically religious fervor of Silicon Valley, borne of the Chicano and Irish Catholicism examined throughout the narrative, further lends itself to a Gothic rendering which ultimately disavows the imperial inheritance of Silicon Valley.