Ghost-watching American modernity : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / Maria del Pilar Blanco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanco, María del Pilar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Comparative literature--American and Latin American.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Latin American and American.

Ghosts in literature.

Haunted places.

Landscapes in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways in which ghosts and haunting emerge across the American hemisphere for authors who are preoccupied with evoking the experience of geographical transformations during a period of unprecedented development. The book offers an innovative approach that seeks to understand ghosts in their local specificity, rather than as products of generic conventions or as allegories of hidden desires. Its chapters pursue formally attentive readings of texts by Domingo Sarmiento, Henry James, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, and Clint Eastwood. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of spectrality for scholars in U.S./Latin American Studies, narrative theory, and comparative literature, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery

2. Desert Mournings

3. Urban Indiscretions

4. Transnational Shadows

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613889942

9781283577496

1283577496

9780823242160

0823242161

9780823242177

082324217X

9780823246618

0823246612

OCLC:

808366482