📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Specter of the Indian Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathryn Troy’s THE SPECTER OF THE INDIAN Blog Tour!

The Specter of the Indian

Inside the Book

Title: THE SPECTER OF THE INDIAN: RACE, GENDER, AND GHOSTS IN AMERICAN SEANCES, 1848 – 1898
Author: Kathryn A. Troy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Pages: 200
Genre: Historical Nonfiction

The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian policy provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social reform among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating parallels between the contested belief of Indians as fading from the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the social impetus to provide American Indians with a means of existence in white America. Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory, Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance accounts in the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.

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Meet the Author

  Kathryn Troy

Kathryn Troy has two Master’s Degrees in History from Stony Brook University. She contributed to the anthology The Spiritualist Movement published by Prager in August 2013, and teaches at Farmingdale State College and Suffolk County Community College. In her spare time she pours all she knows about the ghostly and supernatural into her fiction writing.

WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:

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The Specter of the Indian giveaway

Kathryn Troy is giving away 2 sets of spiritual postcards and 2 Ouija design tote bags!

Terms & Conditions:

  • By entering the giveaway, you are confirming you are at least 18 years old.
  • Four winners will be chosen via Rafflecopter
  • This giveaway ends midnight September 29.
  • Winner will be contacted via email on September 30.
  • Winners have 48 hours to reply.

Good luck everyone!

ENTER TO WIN!

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Participants:

Monday, September 4

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, September 5

Book Review at Mythical Books

Friday, September 8

Guest Blogging at Fantasy Literature

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Monday, September 11

Book Review at Books, Reviews, ETC.

Tuesday, September 12

Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Wednesday, September 13

Book Featured at Mello & June, It’s a Book Thang!

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Monday, September 18

Book Featured at C.A. Milson Author Blog

Tuesday, September 19

Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

Wednesday, September 20

Book Review at Books for Books

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Monday, September 25

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Wednesday, September 27

Book Review at T’s Stuff

Thursday, September 28

Guest Blogging at Blogging Authors

Friday, September 29

Book Review at Leigh Anderson Romance

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