DisPossession : Haunting in Canadian Fiction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (383 pages)
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: DisPossession and Haunting in Canadian Fiction -- PART ONE: THE HAUNTED NATION: EXPLORER AND SETTLER-INVADER AMNESIA AND THE SPECTRAL NATIVE -- 1 Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning -- 2 Dispossession and the Rule of Primogeniture in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright -- PART TWO: TRANSNATIONAL HAUNTING: THE GHOSTS OFTHE DIASPORA -- 3 Jane Urquhart's Away: Magic Realism and the Ghosts of Celticism -- 4 'Cloth Flowers That Bleed': Haunting, Hysteria, and Diaspora in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- 5 'The spirits call she and make their display in she': The Trope of Possession in the Work of Dionne Brand -- PART THREE: GHOSTS AND THE CYCLE OF REPARATION AND REPAIR -- 6 Ghost Play: The Use of Transitional Phenomena in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water -- Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Haunting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
An exploration into the darker aspects of contemporary Canadian fiction.
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Ghosts in literature. Spirit possession in literature. Supernatural in literature.