Tales from the Haunted South Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
| Author/creator | Miles, Tiya Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
| Description | 176 p. ill 09.250 x 06.120 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation This text explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of 'ghost tours,' frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by relying on stories of enslaved black spectres. Through an examination of popular sites and stories from select ghost tours, this book shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. 'Dark tourism' often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies, to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015017760 |
| ISBN | 9781469636146 |
| ISBN | 146963614X (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Stock number | 00027332 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |