TY - BOOK AU - Blanco,María del Pilar TI - Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination SN - 9780823242146 U1 - 809/.897 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Comparative literature KW - American and Latin American KW - Latin American and American KW - Ghosts in literature KW - Haunted places KW - Landscapes in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Spanish American literature KW - American Studies KW - Latin American Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh KW - Latin American Literature KW - U.S. Literature KW - ghosts KW - haunting KW - landscape KW - modernity KW - space N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery --; 2. Desert Mournings --; 3. Urban Indiscretions --; 4. Transnational Shadows --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways in which ghosts and haunting emerge across the American hemisphere for authors who are preoccupied with evoking the experience of geographical transformations during a period of unprecedented development.The book offers an innovative approach that seeks to understand ghosts in their local specificity, rather than as products of generic conventions or as allegories of hidden desires. Its chapters pursue formally attentive readings of texts by Domingo Sarmiento, Henry James, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, and Clint Eastwood. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of spectrality for scholars in U.S./Latin American Studies, narrative theory, and comparative literature, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242177?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823242177 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823242177/original ER -