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Spectral America - Phantoms and the National Imagination (Paperback)
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Spectral America - Phantoms and the National Imagination (Paperback)
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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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