{"product_id":"the-haunted-southwest-towards-an-ethics-of-place-in-borderlands-literature-9781682831250","title":"The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the American Southwest, Hispano, Indian, and Euro-American cultures display conflicting and competing avenues for legitimacy. Examining literature of the region, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e makes use of theories of place, space, and haunting to show how memory instills an ethic and orientation tied to embodied knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican modernist ideologies accelerated the erasure of indigenous histories and ways of being-in-the-world. \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Southwest\u003c\/i\u003e digs under spatial geography to expose sites where colonial and colonized cultures intersect and overlay to create a palimpsest haunted by history. These sites emerge as environments of memory—places of synthesis and renewal for indigenous and \u003ci\u003emestiza\/o\u003c\/i\u003e subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePressing the need to disturb narratives within the \"bordered frontier\" foregrounds a moral imperative for place-making in the US-Mexico Borderlands. In this way, this book situates region and place as generative sites of ideology and ethnic identity that more broadly signify sustainable practices on the Borderlands. A primary goal is to demonstrate how a focus on the political and social forces of haunting embeds a moral and ethical framework that speaks to our most pressing contemporary environmental and social justice concerns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough analysis and resituation of border rituals and celebrations, alongside works by Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others, author Cordelia E. Barrera argues that an eco-spatial poetics attuned to multivocality within postmodern narratives breaks open haunted sites and allows us to re-map landscapes as a repository of ancestral traces and on ethical grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Tech Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456147784023,"sku":"9781682831250","price":32.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781682831250.jpg?v=1755033982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-haunted-southwest-towards-an-ethics-of-place-in-borderlands-literature-9781682831250","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}