Espectros
Subtitle: ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives
By: edited by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781611487367; 9781611487381
Subjects: Motion pictures; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Spanish American fiction; Psychic trauma in literature; Violence in literature; History and criticism; Spanish fiction; Violence in motion pictures; History
Description: Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect in image theory, and a renewed interest in the Gothic genre, has given rise to a Spectral Studies approach to the study of narrative. Haunting, the spectral, and the effects of the unseen, carry a special weight in contemporary Latin American and Spanish cultures (referred to in the book as "Transhispanic cultures"), due to the ominous legacy of authoritarian governments and civil wars, as well as the imposition of the unseen yet tangible effects of global economics and neoliberal policies. Ribas and Petersen's detailed introductory analysis grounds haunting as a theoretical tool for literary and cultural criticism in the Transhispanic world, with an emphasis on the contemporary period from the end of the Cold War to the present. The chapters in this volume explore haunting from a diversity of perspectives, in particular engaging haunting as a manifestation of trauma, absence, and mourning. The editors carefully distinguish the collective, cultural dimension of historical trauma from the individual, psychological experience of the aftermath of a violent history, always taking into account unresolved social justice issues. The volume also addresses the association of the spectral photographic image with the concept of haunting because of the photograph's ability to reveal a presence that is traditionally absent or has been excluded from hegemonic representations of society. The volume concludes with a series of studies that address the unseen effects and progressive deterioration of the social fabric as a result of a globalized economy and neoliberal policies, from the modernization of the nation-state to present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Theories of the ghost in a transhispanic context  -- Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen; title: Ghostly encounters: haunted histories.; title: The museum of memory: spectral presences and metaphoric re-membering  -- Megan Corbin ;; title: The bright future of the ghost: memory in the work of Javier Marías  -- Isabel Cuñado ;; title: 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; title: The persistence of violence: trauma as haunting.; title: Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary novels of the disappeared  -- Karen Wooley Martin ;; title: The literalization of trauma's specter and the problematization of time in Aparecidos  -- Charles St-Georges ;; title: Phantom children: spectral presences and the violent past in two films of contemporary Spain  -- Sarah Thomas ;; title: Fog instead of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in Colombia's recent literature and film  -- Juliana Martínez; title: Still images: the living and the dead.; title: Framing and feeling immigration: haunting visuality and alterity in Ramito de Hierbabuena  -- N. Michelle Murray ;; title: Memento Mori: photography and narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar  -- Marta Sierra; title: Invisible hands: specters of the market economy.; title: Cubagua's ghosts  -- Juan Pablo Llupi ;; title: Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and (in)visible demographics in Maurice Echeverría María del Carmen  -- Caña Jiménez ;; title: Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market -- Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca.