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Bezig met laden... Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imaginationdoor Avery F. Gordon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As individuals are haunted by the traumatic incidents their psyches repress, so are cultures haunted by the histories of violence and subjugation they suppress in the name of "civilization." This in turn has consequences for the health of individual psyches. Some cultural productions manage to capture this haunting; Gordon is right to focus on them, although no skilled exegesis is necessary to prove Toni Morrison's Beloved is a novel about being haunted by the consequences of slavery. A great and useful central idea burdened with the disjunctive, fake-poetic, molehills-into-mountains exposition style of much postmodern critical theory. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny." -American Studies International "Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The book is very beautifully written, though, and I will no doubt mine it heavily for quotations in the future! I'd definitely recommend this to anyone thinking about haunting as a theoretical concept for their work ( )