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Possessions - The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley (Paperback, New Ed)
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Possessions - The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley (Paperback, New Ed)
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The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with
ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of
Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves,
priests, and laborers. "Possessions" asks why this region just
outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales,
and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of
social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized
returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories.
Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of
narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith
Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley
hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical
contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they
haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere
echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics
of place. Through its tight geographical focus, "Possessions"
illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the
nation as a whole.
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