Haints : American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions /
Redding, Arthur F.,1964-
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,
c2011.
Introduction: A land without ghosts -- Haints and nation: ghosts and the narrative of national identity -- Memory, race, ethnicity, and violence -- Abandoning hope in American fiction: Catalogs of gothic catastrophe -- Conclusion: American innocence.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ghost stories, American
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
Ghosts in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.