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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Social Problems ; copyright 1990 by the Society for the Study of Social Problems . Permission to reproduce images in this book was granted by Jaimie Lyle Gordon for " Time Honored Hands , ” “ Employees must wash hands , ” “ Guardian ...
... Social Problems ; copyright 1990 by the Society for the Study of Social Problems . Permission to reproduce images in this book was granted by Jaimie Lyle Gordon for " Time Honored Hands , ” “ Employees must wash hands , ” “ Guardian ...
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... social analysts specifically have failed to grasp the true significance of the claim . Her reader has to wonder immediately what dense particularities the abstraction " com- plicated " demarcates for Gordon and why those specificities ...
... social analysts specifically have failed to grasp the true significance of the claim . Her reader has to wonder immediately what dense particularities the abstraction " com- plicated " demarcates for Gordon and why those specificities ...
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... social architecture [ s ] " ( 4 ) . Though she acknowledges the advantages of sociology's rhetoric of abstraction , Gordon is wary of the way such rhetoric renders unremarkable not merely the overdetermined densities and complexities of ...
... social architecture [ s ] " ( 4 ) . Though she acknowledges the advantages of sociology's rhetoric of abstraction , Gordon is wary of the way such rhetoric renders unremarkable not merely the overdetermined densities and complexities of ...
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... social and the individual , constrains our ability to recognize and to redress the profound human costs of a system that is utterly de- pendent on the repression of a knowledge of social injustice . The book thus joins a theoretical ...
... social and the individual , constrains our ability to recognize and to redress the profound human costs of a system that is utterly de- pendent on the repression of a knowledge of social injustice . The book thus joins a theoretical ...
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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