Haunted Property

Haunted Property
Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781496829719
ISBN-13 : 1496829719
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Haunted Property by : Sarah Gilbreath Ford

Download or read book Haunted Property written by Sarah Gilbreath Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize 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.


Haunted Property Related Books

Haunted Property
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. W
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Peter Haining
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Hachette UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful
House of Spirits and Whispers
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Annie Wilder
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-15 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This edition of House of Spirits and Whispers features a new preface from the author, photographs, and bonus material We had been instructed to enter by the bac
Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Carolyn Morrow Long
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-04 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inside the "Most Haunted" House in New Orleans The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly
At the Old Haunted House
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Helen Ketteman
Categories: Counting
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the author of the popular Goodnight, Little Monster and a character designer for Pixar films comes a delightful rhyming romp through an old haunted house.