LEADER 03848nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910826471803321 005 20240416202611.0 010 $a0-7735-3950-6 010 $a1-283-58396-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773587311 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241422 035 $a(EBL)3282245 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000717148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477570 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10740130 035 $a(PQKB)11767251 035 $a(CEL)443440 035 $a(OCoLC)811411376 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00230693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332493 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595601 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389641 035 $a(OCoLC)923238029 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/3jzfpb 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332493 035 $a(DE-B1597)657386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773587311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241422 100 $a20110831d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisPossession $ehaunting in Canadian fiction /$fMarlene Goldman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (383 p.) 311 $a0-7735-8731-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aMuch of Canada's contemporary fiction displays an eerie fascination with the supernatural. In DisPossession, Marlene Goldman investigates the links between spectral motifs and the social and historical influences that have shaped Canada. Incorporating both psychoanalytic and non-traditional methods of literary analysis, Goldman explores the ways in which spectral fictions are an expression of definitive Canadian experiences such as the clashes between invading settler and indigenous populations, the losses incurred by immigration and diaspora, and the alienation of the female body. In so doing, Goldman unearths some of the "ghosts" of Canadian society itself - old tensions and injustices that continue to haunt ethnic and gender relations. An important contribution to the discussion of the challenges posed by the Gothic to dominant literary, political, and social narratives, DisPossession asserts that Canadian spectral fictions have the power to alter accepted versions of Canadian history by invoking and troubling the process of generating collective memories. 606 $aGhosts in literature 606 $aSpirit possession in literature 606 $aSupernatural in literature 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 615 0$aSpirit possession in literature. 615 0$aSupernatural in literature. 676 $a813.540937 700 $aGoldman$b Marlene$f1963-$01297352 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826471803321 996 $aDisPossession$93946343 997 $aUNINA