Ghostly Matters by Avery F Gordon

Ghostly Matters by Avery F Gordon

“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 this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles Lemert   Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations.   Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.   Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.

Gordon, Avery F.: - Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Visiting Professor in the Birkbeck Department of Law, University of London. Her most recent books are The Workhouse (with Ines Schaber), Ghostly Matters, and Keeping Good Time.

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ISBN 13	9780816654468
ISBN 10	0816654468
Title	Ghostly Matters
Author	Avery F Gordon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2008-02-29
Number of pages	272
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