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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462159803321

Autore

Goldman Marlene <1963->

Titolo

DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-7735-3950-6

1-283-58396-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Disciplina

813.540937

Soggetti

Ghosts in literature

Spirit possession in literature

Supernatural in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one The Haunted Nation: Explorer and Settler-Invader Amnesia and the Spectral Native -- 1 Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning -- 2 Dispossession and the Rule of Primogeniture in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright -- Part two Transnational Haunting: The Ghosts of the Diaspora -- 3 Jane Urquhart's Away : Magic Realism and the Ghosts of Celticism -- 4 'Cloth Flowers That Bleed': Haunting, Hysteria, and Diaspora in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- 5 'The spirits call she and make their display in she': The Trope of Possession in the Work of Dionne Brand -- Part three and Repair Ghosts and the Cycle of Reparation -- 6 Ghost Play: The Use of Transitional Phenomena in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water -- Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Haunting.