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Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric
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Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by del Pilar Blanco, Maria


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In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, Mara 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, Jos Mart, W. E. B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernndez, 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.

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  • Title Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination
  • Author del Pilar Blanco, Maria
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 225
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press
  • Date 2012-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780823242146
  • Themes
    • Topical: New Age

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  • Choice, 09/01/2012, Page 0

About the author


Maria del Pilar Blanco is Lecturer in Latin American Literature and Culture at University College London. She is the co-editor, with Esther Peeren, of Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture.
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Hardback. New. 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.
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