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The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and Jamaican National Trauma

Chapter Title

The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and Jamaican National Trauma

Book Title

The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

Department

Department of Literature and Modern Languages

Files

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Document Type

Book Chapter

Editors

Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan

Description

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the “undead and still dead” include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.

ISBN

9781611478648

Publication Date

4-2016

Publisher

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

City

Lanham, MD

Keywords

Caribbean nationhood, folk culture, legends, myths, politics, popular culture, supernatural

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Page

71

Last Page

82

The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and Jamaican National Trauma
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