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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Series:

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.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghost stories, American--History and criticism.

Ghost stories, American.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.

Ghosts in literature.

Collective memory in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8572-X

OCLC:

772845334