Cultural Haunting
Subtitle: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813918273
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Minorities; American - General; American literature; 20th century; Intellectual life; Minority authors; United States
First sentence: AS I SAT IN the darkened theater of the Yale Rep, watching the 1987 opening performance of August Wilson's new work, The Piano Lesson, it occurred to me that new spectres were haunting America-specifically, that ghosts were populating African-American literature in growing numbers.