LEADER 04603nam 2200973Ia 450 001 9910788679703321 005 20210428211842.0 010 $a1-283-57749-6 010 $a0-8232-4216-1 010 $a9786613889942 010 $a0-8232-4217-X 010 $a0-8232-4661-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823242177 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065560 035 $a(EBL)3239601 035 $a(OCoLC)808366482 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600635 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11367648 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600635 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10617369 035 $a(PQKB)10087762 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239601 035 $a(OCoLC)830023233 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14124 035 $a(DE-B1597)555229 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823242177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC976991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239601 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539017 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL388994 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL976991 035 $a(OCoLC)801363547 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065560 100 $a20111011d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGhost-watching American modernity$b[electronic resource] $ehaunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination /$fMari?a del Pilar Blanco 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4214-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery --$t2. Desert Mournings --$t3. Urban Indiscretions --$t4. Transnational Shadows --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and Latin American 606 $aComparative literature$xLatin American and American 606 $aGhosts in literature 606 $aHaunted places 606 $aLandscapes in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aSpanish American literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSpanish American literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 610 $aLatin American Literature. 610 $aU.S. Literature. 610 $aghosts. 610 $ahaunting. 610 $alandscape. 610 $amodernity. 610 $aspace. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and Latin American. 615 0$aComparative literature$xLatin American and American. 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 615 0$aHaunted places. 615 0$aLandscapes in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aSpanish American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSpanish American literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.897 700 $aBlanco$b Mari?a del Pilar$01496283 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788679703321 996 $aGhost-watching American modernity$93720873 997 $aUNINA