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Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of
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- Author
- Sarah Gilbreath, 1968- author Ford
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781496829733
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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