Ghost-watching American modernity : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination

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Ghost-watching American modernity : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination

Title remainder

haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination

Statement of responsibility

María del Pilar Blanco

Title variation

Haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination

Creator

• Blanco, María del Pilar

Subject

• American literature
• American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• Comparative literature -- American and Latin American
• Comparative literature -- Latin American and American
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Ghosts in literature
• Ghosts in literature
• Haunted places
• Haunted places
• Landscapes in literature
• Landscapes in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Spanish American literature
• Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• 1800 - 1999

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, Maria 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, Jose Marti, W.E.B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernandez, 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."--Project Muse

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography