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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Página viii
... repressed . Sociology must preoccupy itself with what has been lost . According to Gordon , the lost is only apparently absent because the forced " disappearance " of aspects of the social continues to shadow all that remains . Because ...
... repressed . Sociology must preoccupy itself with what has been lost . According to Gordon , the lost is only apparently absent because the forced " disappearance " of aspects of the social continues to shadow all that remains . Because ...
Página ix
... repression of a knowledge of social injustice . The book thus joins a theoretical meditation on how " knowing " is disciplined in the contemporary age with a deeply affecting inquiry into the character of an economic and political ...
... repression of a knowledge of social injustice . The book thus joins a theoretical meditation on how " knowing " is disciplined in the contemporary age with a deeply affecting inquiry into the character of an economic and political ...
Página xv
... repression , and their con- crete impacts on the people most affected by them and on our shared conditions of living . This meant trying to comprehend the terms of an always already racial capitalism and the determining role of ...
... repression , and their con- crete impacts on the people most affected by them and on our shared conditions of living . This meant trying to comprehend the terms of an always already racial capitalism and the determining role of ...
Página xvi
... repressed or unresolved social violence is making itself known , some- times very directly , sometimes more obliquely . I ... repression ceaselessly directed toward us . Haunting is a frightening experience . It always registers the harm ...
... repressed or unresolved social violence is making itself known , some- times very directly , sometimes more obliquely . I ... repression ceaselessly directed toward us . Haunting is a frightening experience . It always registers the harm ...
Página xvii
... repressive states and yet insisted on distinctions between subject and object of knowledge , between fact and fiction , between presence and absence , between past and present , between present and future , be- tween knowing and not ...
... repressive states and yet insisted on distinctions between subject and object of knowledge , between fact and fiction , between presence and absence , between past and present , between present and future , be- tween knowing and not ...
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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