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Title:

Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives / edited by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xv, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Spanish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Violence in literature.
Motion pictures--Latin America--History.
Motion pictures--Spain--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Violence in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Spanish American fiction.
Spanish fiction.
Violence in literature.
Violence in motion pictures.
Latin America.
Spain.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Ribas-Casasayas, Alberto, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015071572
Petersen, Amanda L., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015071574

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca. Ghostly encounters: haunted histories. The museum of memory: spectral presences and metaphoric re-membering / Megan Corbin ; The bright future of the ghost: memory in the work of Javier Marías / Isabel Cuñado ; The spectrality of political violence: exhuming Guatemala's haunted past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When the ground turns in its sleep / Susana S. Martínez -- The persistence of violence: trauma as haunting. Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary novels of the disappeared / Karen Wooley Martin ; The literalization of trauma's specter and the problematization of time in Aparecidos / Charles St-Georges ; Phantom children: spectral presences and the violent past in two films of contemporary Spain / Sarah Thomas ; Fog instead of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in Colombia's recent literature and film / Juliana Martínez -- Still images: the living and the dead. Framing and feeling immigration: haunting visuality and alterity in Ramito de Hierbabuena / N. Michelle Murray ; Memento Mori: photography and narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar / Marta Sierra -- Invisible hands: specters of the market economy. Cubagua's ghosts / Juan Pablo Llupi ; Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and (in)visible demographics in Maurice Echeverría María del Carmen / Caña Jiménez ; Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca.

ISBN:

1611487382
9781611487381
1611487366
9781611487367

OCLC:

(OCoLC)932109885

LCCN:

2015041592

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)