Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions
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Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions
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- Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions
- Title remainder
- American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions
- Subject
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- Collective memory in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Ghost stories, American
- Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism
- Ghosts in literature
- Ghosts in literature
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- Collective memory in literature
- Language
- eng
- 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
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- EBLCP
- Dewey number
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- 813.0873309
- 813/.0873309
- 813/.0873309
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.G45R43 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
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