Title: Ghost-watching American modernity : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination /
Authors: Blanco, María del Pilar.
Publisher: Fordham University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Comparative literature American and Latin American.; Comparative literature Latin American and American.; American literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; Spanish American literature History and criticism; Spanish American literature History and criticism; Ghosts in literature; Landscapes in literature.; Nationalism in literature.; Haunted places
Abstract: In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, Mar̕a del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways in which ghosts and haunting emerge across the American hemisphere for authors who are preoccupied with evoking the experience of geographical transformations during a period of unprecedented development.
Contents: Unsolving hemispheric mystery -- Desert mournings -- Urban indiscretions -- Transnational shadows.