Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions / / Arthur Redding

• Autore: Redding Arthur F. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.0873309
• Soggetto topico: Ghost stories, American - History and criticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American - History and criticism; Ghosts in literature; Collective memory in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Haints
• ISBN: 0-8173-8572-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816826903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: 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.