American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1707 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ghost and the Recovered Voice
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The idea
In the anchor's summary the ghost of a slain baby haunts the home of an escaped slave. The witness says recovering the voice of the unheard is the premise of the book, because fiction can reach what historians and newspapers never recorded about such a life.
In practice
A haunting that is also a recovery.
Where people slip
Fiction here does work that records cannot.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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