03363nam 2200637 a 450 991079196530332120230725021421.00-8173-8572-X(CKB)2560000000079477(EBL)835628(OCoLC)772845334(SSID)ssj0000590824(PQKBManifestationID)11336335(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000590824(PQKBWorkID)10673160(PQKB)11468470(MiAaPQ)EBC835628(MdBmJHUP)muse17212(Au-PeEL)EBL835628(CaPaEBR)ebr10527744(EXLCZ)99256000000007947720110217d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHaints[electronic resource] American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions /Arthur ReddingTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20111 online resource (165 p.)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 innocenceDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1746-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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. 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.Ghost stories, AmericanHistory and criticismGothic fiction (Literary genre), AmericanHistory and criticismGhosts in literatureCollective memory in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureGhost stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Gothic fiction (Literary genre), AmericanHistory and criticism.Ghosts in literature.Collective memory in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.813/.0873309Redding Arthur F.1964-1540544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791965303321Haints3863011UNINA