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Publication Date:
29 Aug 2013
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Bloomsbury Publishing US
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Description
The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the spectral turn of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the past twenty years from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, the Reader displays the wide range of concerns spectrality, in its diverse elaborations, has been called upon to elucidate. The disjunctions produced by globalization, the ungraspable quality of modern media, the convolutions of subject formation (in terms of gender, race, and sexuality), the elusiveness of spaces and places, and the lingering presences and absences of memory and history have all been reconceived by way of the spectral. A primer for the wide readership engaged with cultural interpretations of ghosts and haunting that go beyond the confines of the fictional and supernatural, The Spectralities Reader includes twenty-five groundbreaking texts by prominent contemporary thinkers, from Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak to Avery Gordon and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a general introduction and six section introductions by the editors.
Contents
Acknowledgments Permissions Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities I. The Spectral Turn Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Spectral Turn / Introduction Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Spectrographies Colin Davis, Etat Present: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, from Introduction: The Spectral Turn Julian Wolfreys, Preface: On Textual Haunting Roger Luckhurst, from The Contemporary London Gothic and the Limits of the Spectral Turn II. Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary / Introduction Avery F. Gordon, from her shape and his hand Achille Mbembe, from Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola Arjun Appadurai, Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Peter Hitchcock, from ( ) of Ghosts III. The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media / Introduction Tom Gunning, To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision Jeffrey Sconce, from Introduction to Haunted Media Akira Mizuta Lippit, from Modes of Avisuality: Psychoanalysis - X-ray - Cinema David Toop, from Chair creaks, but no one sits there Allen S. Weiss, Preface: Radio Phantasms, Phantasmic Radio IV. Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race / Introduction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from Ghostwriting Carla Freccero, Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past Sharon Patricia Holland, from Introduction: Raising the Dead Renee L. Bergland, from Indian Ghosts and American Subjects V. Possessions: Spectral Places Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Possessions: Spectral Places / Introduction Anthony Vidler, Buried Alive Ulrich Baer, To Give Memory a Place: Contemporary Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition David Matless, A Geography of Ghosts: The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts Giorgio Agamben, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters VI. Haunted Historiographies Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Haunted Historiographies / Introduction Judith Richardson, A History of Unrest Jesse Aleman, The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest Alexander Nemerov, Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History Index
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