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ERIC Number: EJ498891
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0994
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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Identifiers: Ghost Stories; Historical Background; Literary Theory