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Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore.

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore. By Diane E. Goldstein,

Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas. Logan: Utah State University Press,

2007. 270 pp., photographs.

Seeking spectral sites from haunted houses to haunted toilets, and examining genres from contemporary legends and jokes to cinema and television, Haunting Experiences places its subject matter at the intersection between folklore and popular culture, belief and fiction, asking the question: What is new in contemporary ghostlore, and what is appropriation and recontextualization of the old? The opening metaphor of the book captures the range of its subject matter. It begins with the image of a bottle-tree wind chime set, available for sale in the gift shop of San Jose, California's Winchester Mystery House. The collectible is modeled on the southern African American tradition of hanging empty bottles from defoliated branches in order to distract--or perhaps capture--evil spirits before they can enter the house....

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