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1 online resource (165 pages). |
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| Series |
A land without ghosts -- Haints and nation: ghosts and the narrative of national identity -- Memory, race, ethnicity, and violence -- Abandoning hope in American fiction: Catalogs of gothic catastrophe -- Conclusion: American innocence
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Land Without Ghosts; 1: Haints and Nation: Ghosts and the Narrative of National Identity; 2: Memory, Race, Ethnicity, and Violence; 3: Abandoning Hope in American Fiction: Catalogs of Gothic Catastrophe; Conclusion: American Innocence; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry; their ghosts remain unburied and restless. Such authors as Toni Morrison and Leslie Ma. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Ghost stories, American. |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American. |
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Ghosts in literature.
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Ghosts in literature. |
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Collective memory in literature.
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Collective memory in literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Redding, Arthur. Haints : American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9780817317461 |
| ISBN |
9780817385729 (electronic book) |
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081738572X (electronic book) |
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9780817317461 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0817317465 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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