The haunt of home : a journey through America's heartland /
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.
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Ithaca, New York :
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.