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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... things entails the capacity to be something other than a local knowledge governed or interpreted by a putative superior . It remained then , as now , a matter of building a shared and practical standpoint for negating dispossessions ...
... things entails the capacity to be something other than a local knowledge governed or interpreted by a putative superior . It remained then , as now , a matter of building a shared and practical standpoint for negating dispossessions ...
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... things " ( 21 ) . The reason why is because ghosts are characteristically attached to the events , things , and places that produced them in the first place ; by na- ture they are haunting reminders of lingering trouble . Ghosts hate new ...
... things " ( 21 ) . The reason why is because ghosts are characteristically attached to the events , things , and places that produced them in the first place ; by na- ture they are haunting reminders of lingering trouble . Ghosts hate new ...
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... thing , the sedimented conditions that constitute what is in place in the first place . This turns out to be not a random list at all , but a way of conceptualizing the complicated workings of race , class , and gender , the names we ...
... thing , the sedimented conditions that constitute what is in place in the first place . This turns out to be not a random list at all , but a way of conceptualizing the complicated workings of race , class , and gender , the names we ...
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... things they sometimes have names for and sometimes do not . At the very least , complex person- hood is about conferring the respect on others that comes from presum- ing that life and people's lives are simultaneously straightforward ...
... things they sometimes have names for and sometimes do not . At the very least , complex person- hood is about conferring the respect on others that comes from presum- ing that life and people's lives are simultaneously straightforward ...
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... thing interdisciplinary it's not enough to choose a ' subject ' ( a theme ) and gather around it two or three sciences . Interdisciplinarity consists in creating a new object that belongs to no one ... things her shape and his hand 7.
... thing interdisciplinary it's not enough to choose a ' subject ' ( a theme ) and gather around it two or three sciences . Interdisciplinarity consists in creating a new object that belongs to no one ... things her shape and his hand 7.
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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