Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions.

"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. a Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting w...

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Main Author: Redding, Arthur F., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011
Series:Introduction: 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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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central