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Haunted Property - Slavery and the Gothic (Hardcover)
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Haunted Property - Slavery and the Gothic (Hardcover)
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At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of
people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of
the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a
contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how
writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to
twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and
haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted
Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern
gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or
grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics
have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation's
history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical
conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of
all of slavery's perils, the definition of people as property is
the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration
of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white
accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black
personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and
Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership.
Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark
Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner,
Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey,
Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal
possession with spectral possession.
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