Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America by Blazan, Sladja
Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America by Blazan, Sladja

Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America

Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blazan explains...
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Author: Sladja Blazan
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Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America by Blazan, Sladja

Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America

$51.56
Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America by Blazan, Sladja

Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America

$51.56
Author: Sladja Blazan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche

In this innovative book, Sladja Blazan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social concerns. Ghosts and Their Hosts analyzes American ghost stories, considering their role as a settler colonial tool that emerged to help justify land appropriation and human labor exploitation. Blazan breaks with the long tradition of reading ghosts as harbingers of justice, arguing that early American ghost stories worked instead to suppress the presence of non-Europeans through fantasies of European transcultural incorporation. Images of sentient forests and nature possessed by spirits helped develop fixed racial, gendered, and sexualized categories, while authors used ghosts to affirm existing hierarchies and establish new ones. Focusing on the cultural exchanges between Germany, England, France, and the United States around the turn of the nineteenth century, Blazan deploys a groundbreaking ecocritical and comparative approach to shed light on this haunting subject.

Author: Sladja Blazan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 12/31/2024
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780813952390

About the Author
Sladja Blazan is Visiting Professor of English at the University of Marburg and the author of Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman.
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