Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma, affect in visual and material culture, and the economic and social pressures of globalization and neoliberal economics.
Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma, affect in visual and material culture, and the economic and social pressures of globalization and neoliberal economics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas is assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Santa Clara University. Amanda L. Petersen is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and affiliated faculty for the Latin American Studies and Gender Studies programs at the University of San Diego.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Introduction: Theories of the Ghost in a Transhispanic Context by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen Part I. Ghostly Encounters: Haunted Histories Chapter 1: The Museum of Memory: Spectral Presences and Metaphoric Re-membering by Megan Corbin Chapter 2: The Bright Future of the Ghost: Memory in the Work of Javier Marías by Isabel Cuñado Chapter 3: The Spectrality of Political Violence: Exhuming Guatemala's Haunted Past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family Resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When The Ground Turns in its Sleep by Susana S. Martínez Part II. The Persistence of Violence: Trauma as Haunting Chapter 4: Apparitions and Absence: Spectrality in Contemporary Novels of the Disappeared by Karen Wooley Martin Chapter 5: The Literalization of Trauma's Specter and the Problematization of Time in Aparecidos by Charles St-Georges Chapter 6: Phantom Children: Spectral Presences and the Violent Past in Two Films of Contemporary Spain by Sarah Thomas Chapter 7: Fog Instead of Land: Spectral Topographies of Disappearance in Colombia's Recent Literature and Film by Juliana Martínez Part III. Still Images: The Living and the Dead Chapter 8: Framing and Feeling Immigration: Haunting Visuality and Alterity in Ramito de hierbabuena by N. Michelle Murray Chapter 9: Memento Mori: Photography and Narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie Me verá Llorar by Marta Sierra Part IV. Invisible Hands: Specters of the Market Economy Chapter 10: Cubagua's Ghosts by Juan Pablo Lupi Chapter 11: Portraits of the Walking Dead: Transgressing Genres and (In)visible Demographics in Maurice Echeverría by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Chapter 12: Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market by Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca Bibliography Index About the Contributors
Contents Introduction: Theories of the Ghost in a Transhispanic Context by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen Part I. Ghostly Encounters: Haunted Histories Chapter 1: The Museum of Memory: Spectral Presences and Metaphoric Re-membering by Megan Corbin Chapter 2: The Bright Future of the Ghost: Memory in the Work of Javier Marías by Isabel Cuñado Chapter 3: The Spectrality of Political Violence: Exhuming Guatemala's Haunted Past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family Resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When The Ground Turns in its Sleep by Susana S. Martínez Part II. The Persistence of Violence: Trauma as Haunting Chapter 4: Apparitions and Absence: Spectrality in Contemporary Novels of the Disappeared by Karen Wooley Martin Chapter 5: The Literalization of Trauma's Specter and the Problematization of Time in Aparecidos by Charles St-Georges Chapter 6: Phantom Children: Spectral Presences and the Violent Past in Two Films of Contemporary Spain by Sarah Thomas Chapter 7: Fog Instead of Land: Spectral Topographies of Disappearance in Colombia's Recent Literature and Film by Juliana Martínez Part III. Still Images: The Living and the Dead Chapter 8: Framing and Feeling Immigration: Haunting Visuality and Alterity in Ramito de hierbabuena by N. Michelle Murray Chapter 9: Memento Mori: Photography and Narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie Me verá Llorar by Marta Sierra Part IV. Invisible Hands: Specters of the Market Economy Chapter 10: Cubagua's Ghosts by Juan Pablo Lupi Chapter 11: Portraits of the Walking Dead: Transgressing Genres and (In)visible Demographics in Maurice Echeverría by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Chapter 12: Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market by Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca Bibliography Index About the Contributors
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
