Espectros : ghostly hauntings in contemporary transhispanic narratives /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ribas-Casasayas, Alberto (Editor), Petersen, Amanda L. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Psychic trauma in literature. Violence in literature. Motion pictures > Latin America > History. Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism. Psychic trauma in motion pictures. Violence in motion pictures. Motion pictures. Spanish American fiction. Spanish fiction. Latin America. Spain. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: theories of the ghost in a transhispanic context
Ghostly encounters: haunted histories. The museum of memory: spectral presences and metaphoric re-membering / Megan Corbin
The bright future of the ghost: memory in the work of Javier Marías Isabel Cuñado
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
The persistence of violence: trauma as haunting. Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary novels of the disappeared / Karen Wooley Martin
The literalization of trauma's specter and the problematization of time in Aparecidos / Charles St-Georges
Phantom children: spectral presences and the violent past in two films of contemporary Spain / Sarah Thomas
Fog instead of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in Colombia's recent literature and film / Juliana Martínez
Still images: the living and the dead. Framing and feeling immigration: haunting visuality and alterity in Ramito de Hierbabuena / N. Michelle Murray
Memento Mori: photography and narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar / Marta Sierra
Invisible hands: specters of the market economy. Cubagua's ghosts / Juan Pablo Llupi
Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and (in)visible demographics in Maurice Echeverría María del Carmen / Caña Jiménez
Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca.