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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820609603321

Titolo

Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives / / edited by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61148-737-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

863/.609353

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Psychic trauma in literature

Violence in literature

Motion pictures - Latin America - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Spain - History and criticism

Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Ghostly Encounters: Haunted Histories; 1 The Museum of Memory; 2 The Bright Future of the Ghost; 3 The Spectrality of Political Violence; II: The Persistence of Violence: Trauma as Haunting; 4 Apparitions and Absence; 5 The Literalization of Trauma's Specter and the Problematization of Time in Aparecidos; 6 Phantom Children; 7 Fog Instead of Land; III: Still Images: The Living and the Dead; 8 Framing and Feeling Immigration; 9 Memento Mori; IV: Invisible Hands: Specters of the Market Economy

10 Cubagua's Ghosts11 Portraits of the Walking Dead; 12 Haunting Capitalism; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.