Fetch The Supernatural In Short Fiction Of The Americas: The Other World In The New World Drafted By Dana Del George Publication

continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms.
While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading audiences of the pastyears have shifted their beliefs about the supernatural several times.
While nineteenthcentury readers understood science as real and the supernatural as imaginary, modern audiences recognize both as inaccurate, a shift which allows authors of supernatural fiction to celebrate premodern indigenous beliefs which were once disdained by a materialist culture.




This book situates supernatural short fiction of the Americas within the changing cultural and epistemological contexts of the lastyears and explores how authors have drawn upon a wealth of indigenous traditions.
The book begins with a discussion of theories of the supernatural and the fantastic, It then looks at some of the first encounters of European and Native American supernatural beliefs and

points to the common elements of these early traditions.
The volume next focuses on American literature of the nineteenth century, which has a complex fusion of materialist biases and metaphysical fascinations.
The final portion of the book gives greater attention to SpanishAmerican literature and the blending of the supernatural with attitudes of nostalgia and uncertainty.
Dr. Dana Del George is a tenured English professor at Santa Monica College, She is the author of a childrens book about divorce and a scholarly book about supernatural short fiction of the Americas.
Dr. Dana Del George is a tenured English professor at Santa Monica College, She is the author of a children's book about divorce and a scholarly book about supernatural short fiction of the Americas.
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