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

• Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 863/.609353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): Ribas-CasasayasAlberto; PetersenAmanda L.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Espectros
• ISBN: 1-61148-737-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797806303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II