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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... modern knowledge practices are embedded in social forms of domination . but that such practices work to conceal , rather than to disclose , the relationship between knowledge and power . " —Lisa Lowe " What this review cannot capture is ...
... modern knowledge practices are embedded in social forms of domination . but that such practices work to conceal , rather than to disclose , the relationship between knowledge and power . " —Lisa Lowe " What this review cannot capture is ...
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... modern history has rendered ghostly ? " ( 18 ) . In her effort to pursue an answer to that question , Gordon is prin- cipally assisted on her quest by two companions in thought , Luisa Valenzuela and Toni Morrison . I call Valenzuela ...
... modern history has rendered ghostly ? " ( 18 ) . In her effort to pursue an answer to that question , Gordon is prin- cipally assisted on her quest by two companions in thought , Luisa Valenzuela and Toni Morrison . I call Valenzuela ...
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... modern state , so too does she think deeply about how political change can be effected . There is a critical undercur- rent running beneath the main tide of the book , a preoccupation that is articulated as such only during a few key ...
... modern state , so too does she think deeply about how political change can be effected . There is a critical undercur- rent running beneath the main tide of the book , a preoccupation that is articulated as such only during a few key ...
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... modern forms of dispossession , exploitation , 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 ...
... modern forms of dispossession , exploitation , 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 ...
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... modern systems of abusive power in their im- mediacy and worldly significance . It seemed to me that radical scholars and intellectuals knew a great deal about the world capitalist system and repressive states and yet insisted on ...
... modern systems of abusive power in their im- mediacy and worldly significance . It seemed to me that radical scholars and intellectuals knew a great deal about the world capitalist system and repressive states and yet insisted on ...
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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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Avery Gordon Aucun aperçu disponible - 1997 |
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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