2620973Haintshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/haints-9780817385729/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3271863/a9dab0ce-56a7-47fb-ba6b-c046ba80af57.jpg?v=638385128813070000368512MXNUniversity of Alabama PressInStock/Ebooks/Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fictionIn Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, Arthur Redding argues that ghosts serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history.Authors such as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today their descendants are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studiessuch as James Baldwins The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambaras Those Bones Are Not My Childgothic writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice....2557010Haints368512https://www.gandhi.com.mx/haints-9780817385729/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3271863/a9dab0ce-56a7-47fb-ba6b-c046ba80af57.jpg?v=638385128813070000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780817385729_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9780817385729_Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fictionIn Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, Arthur Redding argues that ghosts serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history.Authors such as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today their descendants are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studiessuch as James Baldwins The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambaras Those Bones Are Not My Childgothic writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice.(*_*)9780817385729_Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fictionIn Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, Arthur Redding argues that ghosts serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history.Authors such as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today their descendants are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studiessuch as James Baldwins The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambaras Those Bones Are Not My Childgothic writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice....9780817385729_University of Alabama Presslibro_electonico_8985b52a-8acf-315f-89eb-85866958925d_9780817385729;9780817385729_9780817385729Arthur F.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-6bee360d-3619-473e-9090-1e6446fad01f.epub2011-09-15T00:00:00+00:00University of Alabama Press