{"product_id":"the-spectralities-reader-ghosts-and-haunting-in-contemporary-cultural-theory-9781441105592","title":"The Spectralities Reader Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaría del Pilar Blanco \u003c\/b\u003eis University Lecturer in Spanish American Literature and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). \u003cb\u003eEsther Peeren\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled \u003ci\u003eIntersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Freud’s and Adorno’s rejection of the occult, to Derrida’s rehabilitation of the spectral turn, this volume presents a compelling argument for a continued interest in the noisy ghosts of our culture. Not content to limit their remit, the editors have chosen brilliant extracts that explore trauma, memory and history, tracing the spectral through literary theory and criticism, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and economics. It is a book which is strong enough to include an auto-critique of its structuring concept, while showing why that concept still remains vital today. An invaluable collection on the uncanny and the ghostly which should haunt its readers for years to come. * Dr. Pamela Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Sussex, UK *\u003cbr\u003eIn this compelling anthology, editors María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren bring together core texts on the study of ghosts, spectres, and haunting as cultural manifestations ... A dynamic corpus of perspectives that challenges, and delights, with its range and depth -- Kirsten Møllegaard, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, USA * Folklore *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectralities Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcoming invitation to the recent séance with our unfinished past. Its editors prove to be perfect spirit guides, providing steely clarity to a realm that often befuddles and bewitches. -- Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Permissions  María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities  \u003cb\u003eI. The Spectral Turn\u003c\/b\u003e  María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Spectral Turn \/ Introduction   Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Spectrographies    Colin Davis, État Présent: 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”   \u003cb\u003eII. Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary\u003c\/b\u003e  María 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   \u003cb\u003eIII. The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media\u003c\/b\u003e  María 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   \u003cb\u003eIV. Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race \u003c\/b\u003e  María 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  Renée L. Bergland, from Indian Ghosts and American Subjects  \u003cb\u003e V. Possessions: Spectral Places\u003c\/b\u003e  María 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   \u003cb\u003eVI. Haunted Historiographies\u003c\/b\u003e  María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Haunted Historiographies \/ Introduction  Judith Richardson, A History of Unrest  Jesse Alemán, 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769643434327,"sku":"9781441105592","price":53.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441105592.jpg?v=1758722024","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spectralities-reader-ghosts-and-haunting-in-contemporary-cultural-theory-9781441105592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}