Ghost-watching American modernity [[electronic resource] ] : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco

• Autore: Blanco María del Pilar
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.897
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Comparative literature - American and Latin American; Comparative literature - Latin American and American; Ghosts in literature; Haunted places; Landscapes in literature; Nationalism in literature; Spanish American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: Latin American Literature; U.S. Literature; ghosts; haunting; landscape; modernity; space
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery -- 2. Desert Mournings -- 3. Urban Indiscretions -- 4. Transnational Shadows -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ghost-watching American modernity
• ISBN: 1-283-57749-6; 0-8232-4216-1; 9786613889942; 0-8232-4217-X; 0-8232-4661-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825681703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II