04603nam 2200973Ia 450 991078867970332120210428211842.01-283-57749-60-8232-4216-197866138899420-8232-4217-X0-8232-4661-210.1515/9780823242177(CKB)3240000000065560(EBL)3239601(OCoLC)808366482(SSID)ssj0000600635(PQKBManifestationID)11367648(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600635(PQKBWorkID)10617369(PQKB)10087762(MiAaPQ)EBC3239601(OCoLC)830023233(MdBmJHUP)muse14124(DE-B1597)555229(DE-B1597)9780823242177(MiAaPQ)EBC976991(Au-PeEL)EBL3239601(CaPaEBR)ebr10539017(CaONFJC)MIL388994(Au-PeEL)EBL976991(OCoLC)801363547(EXLCZ)99324000000006556020111011d2012 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrGhost-watching American modernity[electronic resource] haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination /María del Pilar Blanco1st ed.New York Fordham University Pressc20121 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-4214-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery --2. Desert Mournings --3. Urban Indiscretions --4. Transnational Shadows --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIn 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.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismComparative literatureAmerican and Latin AmericanComparative literatureLatin American and AmericanGhosts in literatureHaunted placesLandscapes in literatureNationalism in literatureSpanish American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSpanish American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLatin American Literature.U.S. Literature.ghosts.haunting.landscape.modernity.space.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureAmerican and Latin American.Comparative literatureLatin American and American.Ghosts in literature.Haunted places.Landscapes in literature.Nationalism in literature.Spanish American literatureHistory and criticism.Spanish American literatureHistory and criticism.809/.897Blanco María del Pilar1496283MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788679703321Ghost-watching American modernity3720873UNINA