TY - BOOK ID - 2896271 TI - Blood talk : American race melodrama and the culture of the occult PY - 2003 SN - 0226293904 0226293890 PB - Chicago London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - African Americans in literature KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - Afro-Américains dans la littérature KW - Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur KW - Black Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Occultism in literature KW - Occultisme dans la littérature KW - Occultisme in de literatuur KW - Race dans la littérature KW - Race in literature KW - Ras in de literatuur KW - Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - African Americans in literature. KW - American literature KW - Occultism in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Du Bois, W. E. B. KW - Hopkins, Pauline E. KW - Griggs, Sutton Elbert, KW - Dixon, Thomas, KW - Twain, Mark, KW - Political and social views. KW - Du Bois, W. E. B., KW - History and criticism KW - Tvėn, Mark, KW - Tuėĭn, Mark, KW - Tuwayn, Mārk, KW - Twayn, Mārk, KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo, KW - Tven, M. KW - Touen, Makū, KW - Twain, Marek, KW - Make Tuwen, KW - Tuwen, Make, KW - Make Teviin, KW - Твен, Марк, KW - Touain, Mark, KW - טבןַ, מרק, KW - טוויין, מארק, KW - טוויין, מרק, KW - טווין, מארק, KW - טווין, מרק, KW - טווען, מארק, KW - טוין, מרק, KW - טװען, מארק, KW - טװײן, מארק, KW - 馬克吐温, KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius, KW - Conte, Louis de, KW - Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth KW - Hopkins, Pauline KW - Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt KW - Du Bois, W. E. KW - Di︠u︡bua, Uilʹi︠a︡m Ėdvard Burgkhardt, KW - Di︠u︡bua, Vilʹi︠a︡m, KW - Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, KW - DuBois, W. E. B. KW - Du Bois, William, KW - Du Bois, W. B. KW - Dixon, Thomas F., KW - 20th century KW - Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt KW - Political and social views KW - Griggs, Sutton Elbert KW - 19th century KW - Dixon, Thomas KW - Twain, Mark KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk, KW - تواين، مارک KW - Tvāyn, Mārk, KW - Tvėn, Mark KW - Tuėĭn, Mark KW - Tuwayn, Mārk KW - Twayn, Mārk KW - Tʻu-wen, Ma-kʻo KW - Touen, Makū KW - Twain, Marek KW - Make Tuwen KW - Tuwen, Make KW - Make Teviin KW - Твен, Марк KW - Touain, Mark KW - Tuvāyn, Mārk KW - Tvāyn, Mārk KW - Clemens, Samuel Langhorne KW - Snodgrass, Quintus Curtius KW - Conte, Louis de UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2896271 AB - The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre--the race melodrama--and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena. 'Blood Talk' shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in a set of more aesthetically and politically varied works, such as historical romances, sentimental novels, the travel literature of Mark Twain, the regional fiction of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, and the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Gillman then uses the race melodrama to show how racial discourses in the United States have been entangled with occultist phenomena, from the rituals of the Ku Klux Klan and the concept of messianic second-sight to the production of conspiracy theories and studies of dreams and trances. ER -