Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: A Land Without Ghosts 1 1. Haints and Nation: Ghosts and the Narrative of National Identity 12 2. Memory, Race, Ethnicity, and Violence 42 3. Abandoning Hope in American Fiction: Catalogs of Gothic Catastrophe 79 Conclusion: American Innocence 107 Notes 123 Works Cited 131 Index 141 ...