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.