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

Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction

In Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, Arthur Redding argues that ghosts serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history.

Authors such as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed...