Cultural Haunting Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent by Kathleen Brogan PAPERBACK

Cultural HauntingGhosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Brogan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813918273, 978-0813918273\nSynopsis\nGhost stories in various forms have been a part of popular literature for centuries, from Shakespeare to Dickens to Faulkner. Over the past 25 years, a resurgence of haunting plots has occurred in American literature. In this text, Kathleen Brogan makes the case that this recent preoccupation with ghosts stems not from a lingering interest in Gothic themes but instead from a whole new genre in American literature that she calls \""\""the story of cultural haunting\""\"". Examining Louise Erdich's \""\""Tracks\""\"", Toni Morrison's \""\""Beloved\""\"" and Cristina Garcia's \""\""Dreaming in Cuban\""\"", Brogan argues that modern ghost stories offer a way for minority writers to come to terms with their lost cultural identities. At the heart of.