GHOSTS TELL STORIES: CULTURAL HAUNTING IN JESMYN WARD’S SING, UNBURIED, SING
GHOSTS TELL STORIES: CULTURAL HAUNTING IN JESMYN WARD’S SING, UNBURIED, SING

Summary/Abstract: In her novel Sing; Unburied; Sing; Jesmyn Ward uses the ghost as both a literary trope and a cultural element in order to investigate an erased or distorted past and to assert an authenticated African-American cultural identity. Based on Kathleen Brogan’s concept of “Cultural Haunting”; the paper aims to examine how the ghost of Richie (one of the novel’s major characters and narrators) functions as a literary and cultural tool to revise history and re-enliven African-American cultural memory and identity.

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