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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... culture in a deep faith in the private . What Gordon traces is the intricate process by which the reductive and universalizing powers of the market are lived at the level of the conceptual and the intellectual and how the resulting ...
... culture in a deep faith in the private . What Gordon traces is the intricate process by which the reductive and universalizing powers of the market are lived at the level of the conceptual and the intellectual and how the resulting ...
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... culture of manufactured fear , offshore carceral 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 ...
... culture of manufactured fear , offshore carceral 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 ...
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... culture , to track events , stories , anonymous and history- making actions to their density , to the point where we might catch a glimpse of what Patricia Williams calls the " vast networking of our so- ciety " and imagine otherwise ...
... culture , to track events , stories , anonymous and history- making actions to their density , to the point where we might catch a glimpse of what Patricia Williams calls the " vast networking of our so- ciety " and imagine otherwise ...
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... culture has . . . for what it excludes " ( Cixous and Clement 1986 ) . Norma Alarcon ( 1990 ) is following the barely visible tracks of the Native Woman across the U.S. - Mexico border , as she shadows the making of the liberal citizen ...
... culture has . . . for what it excludes " ( Cixous and Clement 1986 ) . Norma Alarcon ( 1990 ) is following the barely visible tracks of the Native Woman across the U.S. - Mexico border , as she shadows the making of the liberal citizen ...
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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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