TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jack,Zachary Michael
TI  - The haunt of home: a journey through America's heartland 
SN  - 9781501751790
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
KW  - Place (Philosopy)
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - Middle West
KW  - Biography
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Middle American Gothic and the Haunt of Home -- Life in Sunnier Climes -- Haunting the House of Memory -- Springtime on the Prairie: A Middle American Gothic -- Blood and Soil -- Pitchforks and Pies -- The Casket-maker's Son -- Death by Mail -- Life and Death in Oz -- Exhuming the Regionalist Body -- Dredge: A Middle American Gothic -- Ghost Players -- Cornfield Cathedrals -- Dovesong: A Middle American Dirge -- Afterword: Life After Death
N2  - "Blends cultural ethnography and demography with moving personal memoir to consider the ways a region's duende shapes the ethos of a land and its people"--
ER  -