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DisPossession : haunting in Canadian fiction /
"Much of Canada's contemporary fiction displays an eerie fascination with the supernatural. In DisPossession, Marlene Goldman investigates the links between spectral motifs and the social and historical influences that have shaped Canada.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one The Haunted Nation: Explorer and Settler-Invader Amnesia and the Spectral Native
- 1 Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning
- 2 Dispossession and the Rule of Primogeniture in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright
- Part two Transnational Haunting: The Ghosts of the Diaspora
- 3 Jane Urquhart's Away : Magic Realism and the Ghosts of Celticism
- 4 'Cloth Flowers That Bleed': Haunting, Hysteria, and Diaspora in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
- 5 'The spirits call she and make their display in she': The Trope of Possession in the Work of Dionne Brand
- Part three and Repair Ghosts and the Cycle of Reparation
- 6 Ghost Play: The Use of Transitional Phenomena in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water
- Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Haunting.