TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1515/9780823242177
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Ghost-Watching American Modernity :Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination /
AU  - Blanco, María del Pilar, 
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
JF  - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1477549
KW  - American literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Ghosts in literature.
KW  - Haunted places.
KW  - Landscapes in literature.
KW  - Nationalism in literature.
KW  - Spanish American literature
KW  - Spanish American literature
KW  - American Studies.
KW  - Latin American Studies.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
KW  - Latin American Literature.
KW  - U.S. Literature.
KW  - ghosts.
KW  - haunting.
KW  - landscape.
KW  - modernity.
KW  - space.
SN  - 9780823242177
TI  - Ghost-Watching American Modernity :Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination /
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