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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... writers prepare us to see differently both the things of our world and the histories that have made them possible . Gordon's readings of both novels are nothing short of brilliant . In effect , Gordon reads Valenzuela and Morrison as ...
... writers prepare us to see differently both the things of our world and the histories that have made them possible . Gordon's readings of both novels are nothing short of brilliant . In effect , Gordon reads Valenzuela and Morrison as ...
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... writing the book , I took on two major problems with which I have , in good company , long grappled . The first was how to understand modern forms of dispossession , exploitation , repression , and their con- crete impacts on the people ...
... writing the book , I took on two major problems with which I have , in good company , long grappled . The first was how to understand modern forms of dispossession , exploitation , repression , and their con- crete impacts on the people ...
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... writing that could represent the damage and the haunting of the historical alternatives and thus richly conjure , describe , narrate , and explain the liens , the costs , the forfeits , and the losses of modern systems of abusive power ...
... writing that could represent the damage and the haunting of the historical alternatives and thus richly conjure , describe , narrate , and explain the liens , the costs , the forfeits , and the losses of modern systems of abusive power ...
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... writing it , security / dirty wars , torture , dis- appearance and captivity , state repression via the rule of military law , enslavement these were , in the First World , treated as obsolete prac- tices that required a special brief ...
... writing it , security / dirty wars , torture , dis- appearance and captivity , state repression via the rule of military law , enslavement these were , in the First World , treated as obsolete prac- tices that required a special brief ...
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... writing with the ghosts any haunting inevitably throws up . Ghosts are a somewhat unusual topic of inquiry for a social analyst ( much less a degreed sociologist ) . It may seem foreign and alien , mar- ginal to the field that ...
... writing with the ghosts any haunting inevitably throws up . Ghosts are a somewhat unusual topic of inquiry for a social analyst ( much less a degreed sociologist ) . It may seem foreign and alien , mar- ginal to the field that ...
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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