GHOSTS AND THEIR HOSTS: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America
By Sladja Blažan. University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Still dominant today, psychological readings of ghosts have obscured the precariousness of lives affected by colonial structures of the early republic. Ghosts and Their Hosts demonstrates that in the transcultural U.S. American context, ghostly figurations were able to express human entanglements with nonhuman environments, which are explored here for the first time. Not only a corrective to metaphysical accounts, a materialist reading of ghosts is crucial to understanding the colonial history and legacy of the ...