Ghost-Watching American Modernity : Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination / María del Pilar Blanco.
Blanco, María del Pilar, author.
2012
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Title Ghost-Watching American Modernity : Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination / María del Pilar Blanco.
Author Blanco, María del Pilar, author.
ISBN 9780823242177
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242177
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (234 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823242177 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.897
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery
2. Desert Mournings
3. Urban Indiscretions
4. Transnational Shadows
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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