Ghostly communion : cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature /
"Beginning his study with a provocative juxtaposition of the Pueblo Indian Revolt and the Salem Witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century, Kucich examines how both events forged "contact zones"-- spaces of intense cultural conflict and negotiation--mediated by spiritualism. Kucich...
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Hanover, N.H. :
Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England,
c2004
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| Series: | Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Pueblo revolt, the Salem witchcraft trials, and cross-cultural spiritualism
- Around Rochester : spiritualism, reform, and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
- Public spirits : spiritualism in American periodicals, 1848-1861
- The politics of heaven : the ghost dance, The gates ajar, and Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven
- Spirits in the contact zone : spiritualism and local color writing
- Spirit nation : spiritualism and national ideology in Henry James's The Bostonians and Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood
- Conclusion : the poetics and politics of spiritualism