"This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring...
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"This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring female creativity as an alternative to monological historical discourse"--
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Louisiana State University, 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Phantom ache: ghosts, fiction, and alternative histories -- Ghosts in New World literature -- "Anthropology of the dead": ghosts, subaltern knowledge, and alternative history in Louisiana -- Haunting and affect: ghosts and nostalgia in Te di la vida entera and Caramelo -- Haunting, history, and imagination in Victoire.
