Specters of a Silenced Past: Literary Ghosts in Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Night Watchman and the Deconstruction of America’s Historical Narrative

This article examines how the hauntings in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Louise Edrich’s The Night Watchman (2020) work to counteract the silencing of cultural trauma and minority histories within the hegemonic historical narrative of the United States. Both of these novels—works fro...

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Autore principale:	Fakkeldij, Femke
Natura:	Artigo
Lingua:	Inglês
Pubblicazione:	European Association for American Studies 2026
Soggetti:	literary hauntings; cultural memory; historical silencing; Sing Unburied Sing; The Night Watchman
Accesso online:	https://doi.org/10.4000/16ks1 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/16ks1 https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/26523
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