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Haunted Property : Slavery and the Gothic /
"At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from ninetee...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The bill of sale: gothic, property, slavery, and the South -
- Chapter one: From damsels to specters in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl and Hannah Crafts's The bondwoman's narrative -
- Chapter two: Playing con games in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -
- Chapter three: Specters on staircases in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon -
- Chapter four: Claiming, killing, and haunting in Toni Morrison's Beloved -
- Chapter five: Claiming the property of history in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Natasha Trethewey's Native guard -
- Contents
- Epilogue: What the gothic can do -
- Notes -
- Works cited -
- Index.