In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits 19th- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish the USA and the us to invite how diversified landscapes are represented as haunted websites. relocating from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the varied ways that ghosts and haunting emerge around the American hemisphere for authors who're preoccupied with evoking the event of geographical changes in the course of a interval of unheard of development.
The publication bargains an leading edge technique that seeks to appreciate ghosts of their neighborhood specificity, instead of as items of commonplace conventions or as allegories of hidden wants. Its chapters pursue officially attentive readings of texts by way of Domingo Sarmiento, Henry James, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, and Clint Eastwood. In an intervention that may reconfigure the serious makes use of of spectrality for students in U.S./Latin American reviews, narrative idea, and comparative literature, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a mode for rediscovering haunting by itself terms.
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