Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological ImaginationU of Minnesota Press, 29 févr. 2008 - 252 pages “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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... complex personhood " ( 4 ) . She would have sociologists attend more carefully to this fact in their efforts to understand power and the way it is inflected by race , class , and gender dynamics . Complex person- hood means that all ...
... complex personhood " ( 4 ) . She would have sociologists attend more carefully to this fact in their efforts to understand power and the way it is inflected by race , class , and gender dynamics . Complex person- hood means that all ...
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... complex theoretical and political work they have done in their novels He Who Searches and Beloved provide a critical opportunity for Gordon to think with , alongside , and in re- sponse to them . She does so by reading their works with ...
... complex theoretical and political work they have done in their novels He Who Searches and Beloved provide a critical opportunity for Gordon to think with , alongside , and in re- sponse to them . She does so by reading their works with ...
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... complex , and imperial pretensions ; the spectacle of a " public " " democratic " debate on the necessity of torture and permanent captivity without even the benefit of a corrupt legal conviction ; the intensifying division between rich ...
... complex , and imperial pretensions ; the spectacle of a " public " " democratic " debate on the necessity of torture and permanent captivity without even the benefit of a corrupt legal conviction ; the intensifying division between rich ...
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... complex personhood . Complex personhood is the second dimension of the theoretical statement that life is complicated . Com- plex personhood means that all people ( albeit in specific forms whose specificity is sometimes everything ) ...
... complex personhood . Complex personhood is the second dimension of the theoretical statement that life is complicated . Com- plex personhood means that all people ( albeit in specific forms whose specificity is sometimes everything ) ...
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... Complex person- hood means that even those who haunt our dominant institutions and their systems of value are haunted too by things they sometimes have names for and sometimes do not . At the very least , complex person- hood is about ...
... Complex person- hood means that even those who haunt our dominant institutions and their systems of value are haunted too by things they sometimes have names for and sometimes do not . At the very least , complex person- hood is about ...
Table des matières
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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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Expressions et termes fréquents
abstract American Amnesty International analysis animated Argentina AZ's Beloved capitalism Cincinnati claim Coffin complex CONADEP consciousness critique crucial culture dead death desaparecido Dirty War disappearance encounter everything face fiction forces Freud Fugitive ghost Ghostly Matters Gordon haunting human ibid imagination invisible Jung kill kind knowledge Latin Levi Coffin living looking Luisa Valenzuela Margaret Garner Marxism means memory military mode modern Mothers never novel object past photograph Plaza de Mayo political postmodern present psycho psychoanalysis question reality relationship remember repression Sabina Spielrein Sethe Sethe's shadow Simon Garner Simpson and Bennett slave narrative slavery social society sociological imagination sociology speak specter story structure of feeling Sweet Home Taussig tell terror things tion Toni Morrison torture Trans Tucumán uncanny experiences unconscious understand University Press Valenzuela and Morrison violence visible woman women writing York