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Author Brogan, Kathleen, 1957-

Title Cultural haunting : ghosts and ethnicity in recent American literature / Kathleen Brogan.

Imprint Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1998.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9920693 B786c    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 228 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
Contents Haunted tales of heirs and ethnographers -- Ghost dancing : cultural translation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- Getting back one's dead for burial : traumatic history and ritual reburial in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- From exiles to Americans : "recombinant" ethnicity in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- Ethnic memory, ethnic mourning.
Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Ghost stories, American -- History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Culture in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
ISBN 0813918278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081391826X (alk. paper)

 
    
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