Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological ImaginationU of Minnesota Press, 2008 M02 29 - 252 páginas “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles Lemert Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations. Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University. |
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... memories of the lost and the disappeared . And those memories , Gordon argues eloquently , must be honored because they provide a different sort of knowledge , a knowledge of " the things behind the things , " of the social conditions ...
... memories of the lost and the disappeared . And those memories , Gordon argues eloquently , must be honored because they provide a different sort of knowledge , a knowledge of " the things behind the things , " of the social conditions ...
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... memory as haunting " that she develops in Ghostly Matters , I think the situation is actually more complicated . It seems that Gordon her- self brings this theory into material being by reading the things behind the things of the novels ...
... memory as haunting " that she develops in Ghostly Matters , I think the situation is actually more complicated . It seems that Gordon her- self brings this theory into material being by reading the things behind the things of the novels ...
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... memories . " One day , the students in my undergraduate course on American cul- ture and I made a thorough list of every possible explanation Toni Mor- rison gives in The Bluest Eye ( 1970 ) for why dreams die . These ranged from ...
... memories . " One day , the students in my undergraduate course on American cul- ture and I made a thorough list of every possible explanation Toni Mor- rison gives in The Bluest Eye ( 1970 ) for why dreams die . These ranged from ...
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... memories , to the unyielding soil , and to what Morrison sometimes just calls the thing , the sedimented conditions that constitute what is in place in the first place . This turns out to be not a random list at all , but a way of ...
... memories , to the unyielding soil , and to what Morrison sometimes just calls the thing , the sedimented conditions that constitute what is in place in the first place . This turns out to be not a random list at all , but a way of ...
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Contenido
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2 Distractions | 31 |
3 The other door its floods of tears with consolation enclosed | 63 |
4 Not only the footprints but the water too and what is down there | 137 |
5 There are crossroads | 193 |
Notes | 209 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 243 |
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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Avery Gordon Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
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