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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... political engagement . The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny . ' " " —American Studies International " Admirably , Ghostly Matters is itself a model of its subject matter ...
... political engagement . The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny . ' " " —American Studies International " Admirably , Ghostly Matters is itself a model of its subject matter ...
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... political system that depends essentially on prac- tices of social disappearance and enslavement . One might say that Avery Gordon's book is interdisciplinary in the finest , most rigorous sense , for she does not simply pursue the ...
... political system that depends essentially on prac- tices of social disappearance and enslavement . One might say that Avery Gordon's book is interdisciplinary in the finest , most rigorous sense , for she does not simply pursue the ...
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... political dis - ease of our historical moment and to envision just what it will take to put things right . Thus she is able to present Valenzuela and Morrison as two of our most perceptive political commentators on the particular and ...
... political dis - ease of our historical moment and to envision just what it will take to put things right . Thus she is able to present Valenzuela and Morrison as two of our most perceptive political commentators on the particular and ...
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... political project , and con- siders the consequences of this for our ability to think critically about capitalism , racism , and the modern state , so too does she think deeply about how political change can be effected . There is a ...
... political project , and con- siders the consequences of this for our ability to think critically about capitalism , racism , and the modern state , so too does she think deeply about how political change can be effected . There is a ...
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... political . I was concerned with how to adequately understand the social - subjective material or matter of what Cedric Robinson shorthandedly called " the nastiness , " without either reducing these matters to the epiphenomenal or ...
... political . I was concerned with how to adequately understand the social - subjective material or matter of what Cedric Robinson shorthandedly called " the nastiness , " without either reducing these matters to the epiphenomenal or ...
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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