@article{1477549,
      recid = {1477549},
      author = {Blanco, María del Pilar, },
      title = {Ghost-Watching American Modernity : Haunting, Landscape,  and the Hemispheric Imagination /},
      pages = {1 online resource (234 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477549},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242177},
}