Zachary Michael Jack

The Haunt of Home

A Journey Through America's Heartland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Blends cultural ethnography and demography with moving personal memoir to consider the ways a region's duende shapes the ethos of a land and its people"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781501751790
• ISBN-10: 1501751794
• Artikelnr.: 59323162

Autorenporträt

Zachary Michael Jack

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Middle American Gothic and the Haunt of Home
Part I: Legacies
1. Life in Sunnier Climes
2. Playing Ball for the Team of the Dead
3. Springtime on the Prairie: A Middle American Gothic
Part II: Visitations
4. The Promise of New Blood
5. Pitchforks and Pies
6. The Casket-maker's Son
7. Death by Mail
8. Life and Death in Oz
9. Exhuming the Regionalist Body
10. Dredge: A Middle American Gothic
Part III: Resurrections
11. Ghost Players
12. Cornfield Cathedrals
13. Dovesong: A Middle American Dirge
Afterword: Life after Death