Introduction : Middle American Gothic and the haunt of home -- Life in Sunnier Climes -- Haunting the House of Memory -- Playing ball for the team of the dead -- Springtime on the Prairie : A Middle American Gothic -- The Promise of New Blood -- Pitchforks and Pies -- The Casket-maker's Son -- Death by Mail -- Life and Death in Oz -- Exhuming the Regionalist Body -- Dredge : A Middle American Gothic -- Ghost Players -- Cornfield Cathedrals -- Dovesong : A Middle American Dirge -- Afterword: Life After Death.
Summary
"Blends cultural ethnography and demography with moving personal memoir to consider the ways a region's duende shapes the ethos of a land and its people"-- Provided by publisher.
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