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Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives

Title
Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives / edited by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen.
Publication
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Ribas-Casasayas, Alberto
  • Petersen, Amanda L.
Description
xv, 243 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900 - 1999
  • 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
  • Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism
  • Psychic trauma in motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Spanish American fiction
  • Spanish fiction
  • Latin America
  • Spain
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: theories of the ghost in a transhispanic context -- Ghostly encounters: haunted histories. The museum of memory: spectral presences and metaphoric re-membering / Megan Corbin -- The bright future of the ghost: memory in the work of Javier Marías Isabel Cuñado -- The spectrality of political violence: exhuming Guatemala's haunted past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When the ground turns in its sleep / Susana S. Martínez -- The persistence of violence: trauma as haunting. Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary novels of the disappeared / Karen Wooley Martin -- The literalization of trauma's specter and the problematization of time in Aparecidos / Charles St-Georges -- Phantom children: spectral presences and the violent past in two films of contemporary Spain / Sarah Thomas -- Fog instead of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in Colombia's recent literature and film / Juliana Martínez -- Still images: the living and the dead. Framing and feeling immigration: haunting visuality and alterity in Ramito de Hierbabuena / N. Michelle Murray -- Memento Mori: photography and narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar / Marta Sierra -- Invisible hands: specters of the market economy. Cubagua's ghosts / Juan Pablo Llupi -- Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and (in)visible demographics in Maurice Echeverría María del Carmen / Caña Jiménez -- Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca.
Call Number
JFE 16-313
ISBN
  • 9781611487367
  • 1611487366
  • 9781611487381
  • 1611487382
LCCN
2015041592
OCLC
932109885
Title
Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives / edited by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen.
Publisher
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900 - 1999
Added Author
Ribas-Casasayas, Alberto, editor.
Petersen, Amanda L., editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-313
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