List of Figures; Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Ghostly Encounters: Haunted Histories; 1 The Museum of Memory; 2 The Bright Future of the Ghost; 3 The Spectrality of Political Violence; II: The Persistence of Violence: Trauma as Haunting; 4 Apparitions and Absence; 5 The Literalization of Trauma's Specter and the Problematization of Time in Aparecidos; 6 Phantom Children; 7 Fog Instead of Land; III: Still Images: The Living and the Dead; 8 Framing and Feeling Immigration; 9 Memento Mori; IV: Invisible Hands: Specters of the Market Economy
10 Cubagua's Ghosts11 Portraits of the Walking Dead; 12 Haunting Capitalism; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors
Summary
Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma, affect in visual and material culture, and the economic and social pressures of globalization and neoliberal economics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index
Notes
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