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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816590203321

Titolo

Phantom past, Indigenous presence [[electronic resource] ] : native ghosts in North American culture and history / / edited and with an introduction by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-14643-6

9786613146434

0-8032-3618-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoydColleen E

ThrushColl-Peter <1970->

Disciplina

398.208997

Soggetti

Indian mythology - North America

Indians of North America - Religion

Ghosts - North America

Ghosts in literature

Indians in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : bringing ghosts to ground / Colleen Boyd and Coll Thrush -- Sherman Alexie's Indian killer as indigenous gothic / Michelle Burnham -- Violence on the home front in Robinson Jeffers's "Tamar" / Geneva M. Gano -- Hauntings as histories : indigenous ghosts and the urban past in Seattle / Coll Thrush -- The anatomy of a haunting : Black Hawk's body and the fabric of history / Adam John Waterman -- The baldoon mysteries / Lisa Philips and Allan K. McDougall -- Haunting remains : educating a new American citizenry at Indian Hill Cemetery / Sarah Schneider Kavanagh -- "We are standing in my ancestor's longhouse" : learning the language of spirits and ghosts / Colleen E. Boyd -- Indigenous hauntings in settler colonial spaces : the activism of indigenous ancestors in the city of Toronto / Victoria Freeman -- Shape-shifters, ghosts, and residual power : an examination of Northern Plains spiritual beliefs, location, objects, and spiritual colonialism / Cynthia Landrum -- Ancestors, ethnohistorical



practice, and the authentication of native place and past / C. Jill Grady.