The haunt of home : a journey through America's heartland / Zachary Michael Jack.
Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020Copyright date: Description: x, 205 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501751790
- 1501751794
- 977 23
- F351 .J33 2020
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Middle American Gothic and the Haunt of Home -- Life in Sunnier Climes -- Haunting the House of Memory -- Springtime on the Prairie: A Middle American Gothic -- Blood and Soil -- Pitchforks and Pies -- The Casket-maker's Son -- Death by Mail -- Life and Death in Oz -- Exhuming the Regionalist Body -- Dredge: A Middle American Gothic -- Ghost Players -- Cornfield Cathedrals -- Dovesong: A Middle American Dirge -- Afterword: Life After Death.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.