Ghost Watching American Modernity
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Ghost Watching American Modernity
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Author : María del Pilar Blanco
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2012
Ghost Watching American Modernity written by María del Pilar Blanco and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
Ghost-watching American Modernity explores the intersections of haunting and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century works from Spanish America and the US. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of haunting for scholars across different fields, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms.
The Spectralities Reader
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Author : Maria del Pilar Blanco
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Spectralities Reader written by Maria del Pilar Blanco and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Social Science categories.
The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the “spectral turn” of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the past twenty years from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, the Reader displays the wide range of concerns spectrality, in its diverse elaborations, has been called upon to elucidate. The disjunctions produced by globalization, the ungraspable quality of modern media, the convolutions of subject formation (in terms of gender, race, and sexuality), the elusiveness of spaces and places, and the lingering presences and absences of memory and history have all been reconceived by way of the spectral. A primer for the wide readership engaged with cultural interpretations of ghosts and haunting that go beyond the confines of the fictional and supernatural, The Spectralities Reader includes twenty-five groundbreaking texts by prominent contemporary thinkers, from Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak to Avery Gordon and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a general introduction and six section introductions by the editors.
The Civil War Dead And American Modernity
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Author : Ian Finseth
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Civil War Dead And American Modernity written by Ian Finseth and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with HISTORY categories.
The "ghastly spectacle": witnessing Civil War death -- Body images: the Civil War dead in visual culture -- Blood and ink: historicizing the Civil War dead -- Plotting mortality: the Civil War dead and the narrative imagination
Ghost Writing In Contemporary American Fiction
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Author : David Coughlan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-05
Ghost Writing In Contemporary American Fiction written by David Coughlan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.
Haunting Without Ghosts
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Author : Juliana Martínez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Haunting Without Ghosts written by Juliana Martínez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Winner, William M. LeoGrande Prize, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, 2022 For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism—above all, the works of Gabriel García Márquez—where ghosts told stories about the country’s violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future. Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted. In their wake comes "spectral realism." Juliana Martínez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmakers, and artists—from Evelio Rosero and William Vega to Beatriz González and Erika Diettes—share a formal and thematic concern with the spectral but shift the focus from what the ghost is toward what the specter does. These works do not speak of ghosts. Instead, they use the specter to destabilize reality by challenging the authority of human vision and historical chronology. By introducing the spectral into their work, these artists decommodify well-worn modes of representing violence and create a critical space from which to seek justice for the dead and disappeared. A Colombia-based study, Haunting without Ghosts brings powerful insight to the politics and ethics of spectral aesthetics, relevant for a variety of sociohistorical contexts.
The New Modernist Studies
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Author : Douglas Mao
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-04
The New Modernist Studies written by Douglas Mao and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.
Horrors Of War
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Author : Cynthia J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-14
Horrors Of War written by Cynthia J. Miller and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.
Surveying The American Tropics
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Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Surveying The American Tropics written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
The Cambridge Companion To Transnational American Literature
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Author : Yogita Goyal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-15
The Cambridge Companion To Transnational American Literature written by Yogita Goyal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
Mind The Ghost
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Author : Sonja Stojanovic
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-16
Mind The Ghost written by Sonja Stojanovic and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers’ investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century – in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda – this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literature’s power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gaël Faye, Jérôme Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, and Cécile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.