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HAINTS: AMERICAN GHOSTS, MILLENIAL PASSIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC FICTION. by Redding, Arthur. Inscribed - 2011
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HAINTS: AMERICAN GHOSTS, MILLENIAL PASSIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC FICTION.
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Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. 149 pp, 9 1/4" H. Inscribed on title page: "TO RISHMA, / IT HAS BEEN / A JOY TO WORK / WI YOU / - ART REDDING". (E)xamines 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. Such authors as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed herigage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today we are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studies - such as James Baldwin's 'The Evidence of Things Not Seen' and Toni Cade Bambara's 'Those Bones Are Not My Child' - writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice. Finally, Redding argues that ghosts emphasize a growing worry about a larger impending crisis: the apocolypse. Yet the despair the apocalypse inspires is vital to providing the grounds for new solutions to modern issues. In the end, the armies of the dispossessed enlist the forces of the spirit world to create a better future - by ensuring that mistakes of the past are not repeated, that Americans do not deny their heritage, and that accountability exists for any given crisis." Book is Near Fine. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing, a faint crease down the rear flap.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Poor/Very Good+.
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- Place of Publication Tuscaloosa
- Date Published 2011
- Keywords Ghosts, ghost Stories, Gothic Fiction, Ghosts in Literature, Collective Memory in Literature, National Characteristics, Haints, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean Baudrillard, Beloved, Kathleen Brogan, George W. Bush, Jacques Derrida, E.L. Doctorow, Mark Edmundson,
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