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Book SynopsisThis book examines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world that, rather than explicitly referencing recent political violence, speak to the societal conditions and everyday normative violence that serve as preconditions for political violence. This study deconstructs intersectional processes of racially and sexually normative subject formationand its oppositional other, ghostly erasurethat are framed by a common temporal logic, wherein full citizenship is contingent upon a nation''s dominant notions of contemporaneousness and whether individuals properly inhabit prescriptive timelines of (re)productivity.St-Georges's study explores ways in which ghosts and families are manipulated in each national imaginary as a strategy for negotiating volatility within symbolic order: a tactic that can either naturalize or challenge normative discourses. As a literary and cinematic trope, ghosts are particularly useful vehicles for the
Trade ReviewThis book is an innovative, engaging, productive and pertinent book, with the potential to reach a broad readership within a variety of scholarly fields. -- Juliana Martínez
Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Temporal Coordinates, Erasures, and Hauntings Chapter 2 - The Modernized Myth and Mythical Modernity in Mexico Chapter 3 - Ticking Biological Clocks and the Fluid Feminine in Kilómetro 31 Chapter 4 - Orphans as Reflections on the Traumatic Past and Interrogations into Social Order in El Orfanato Chapter 5 - Families That Matter: Ghosts, (Dis)Possessions, and the Logic of (Re)Productivity in Los Inocentes
