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9780299199548: Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination
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ISBN 10: 0299199541 ISBN 13: 9780299199548
Casa editrice: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, 2004

Sinossi

    From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. From the Puritans&; conviction that a thousand preternatural beings appear every day before our eyes, to today&;s resurgence of spirits in fiction and film, the culture of the United States has been obsessed with ghosts. In each generation, these phantoms in popular culture reflect human anxieties about religion, science, politics, and social issues.
    Spectral America asserts that ghosts, whether in oral tradition, literature, or such modern forms as cinema have always been constructions embedded in specific historical contexts and invoked for explicit purposes, often political in nature. The essays address the role of "spectral evidence" during the Salem witch trials, the Puritan belief in good spirits, the convergence of American Spiritualism and technological development in the nineteenth century, the use of the supernatural as a tool of political critique in twentieth-century magic realism, and the "ghosting" of persons living with AIDS. They also discuss ghostly themes in the work of Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Gloria Naylor, and Stephen King.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jeffrey Weinstock is assistant professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the editor of The Pedagogical Wallpaper and coeditor, with Sarah Lynn Higley, of Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and The Blair Witch Controversies.

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Editore
Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0299199541
ISBN 13 
9780299199548
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
282
Redattore
Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
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