The Haunted Land
Author | : Tina Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307773582 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
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Author | : Tina Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307773582 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Author | : Monica Black |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250225663 |
“A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.
Author | : Darryl V. Caterine |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This fascinating and insightful tour through present-day meetings of Spiritualists, UFOlogists, and dowsers illuminates our obsession with the paranormal and challenges the misunderstanding of the paranormal as a marginal or inconsequential feature of America's religious landscape. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans believe in some form of paranormal activity. The United States has had a collective fascination with the paranormal since the mid-1800s, and it remains an integral part of our culture. Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America examines three of the most vibrant paranormal gatherings in the United States—Lily Dale, a Spiritualist summer camp; the Roswell UFO Festival; and the American Society of Dowsers' annual convention of "water witches"—to explore and explain the reasons for our obsession with the paranormal. Both academically informed and thoroughly entertaining, this book takes readers on a "road trip" through our nation, guided by professor of American religion Darryl V. Caterine, PhD. The author interprets seemingly unrelated case studies of phantasmagoria collectively as an integral part of the modern discourse about "nature" as ultimate reality. Along the way, Dr. Caterine reveals how Americans' interest in the paranormal is rooted in their anxieties about cultural, political, and economic instability—and in a historic sense of alienation and homelessness.
Author | : Colin Dickey |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Ghosts |
ISBN | : 1101980192 |
An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.
Author | : Sarah Gilbreath Ford |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496829719 |
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 this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781578064779 |
Collecting ghost stories from 55 historically haunted sites throughout the United States, Brown reveals what is lurking behind slamming doors, eerie lights and sightings of Confederate soldiers.
Author | : Anne Rivers Siddons |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007-07-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416553444 |
The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.
Author | : Antoinette May |
Publisher | : Tetra Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780933174917 |