TY - BOOK ID - 77886255 TI - Haints PY - 2011 SN - 081738572X 9780817385729 9780817317461 0817317465 0817359745 PB - Tuscaloosa DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Collective memory in literature. KW - Ghosts in literature. KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American KW - Ghost stories, American KW - American gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - American fiction KW - American ghost stories KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886255 AB - In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry; their ghosts remain unburied and restless. ER -