American Stories of Cultural Haunting: Tales of Heirs and Ethnographers.

Brogan, Kathleen

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ERIC Number: EJ498891

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Publication Date: 1995

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American Stories of Cultural Haunting: Tales of Heirs and Ethnographers.

Brogan, Kathleen

College English, v57 n2 p149-65 Feb 1995

Discusses the ghosts and haunting in recent American fiction. Considers the similarity of function of ghosts in contemporary ethnic American literatures. Identifies a specific kind of ghost story, a "cultural haunting," that has recently emerged in large numbers in ethnic American literature. (HB)

Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, United States Literature

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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