The Spectralities Reader by Maria Pilar Blanco

The Spectralities Reader by Maria Pilar Blanco

The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the “spectral turn” of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the past twenty years from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, the Reader displays the wide range of concerns spectrality, in its diverse elaborations, has been called upon to elucidate. The disjunctions produced by globalization, the ungraspable quality of modern media, the convolutions of subject formation (in terms of gender, race, and sexuality), the elusiveness of spaces and places, and the lingering presences and absences of memory and history have all been reconceived by way of the spectral. A primer for the wide readership engaged with cultural interpretations of ghosts and haunting that go beyond the confines of the fictional and supernatural, The Spectralities Reader includes twenty-five groundbreaking texts by prominent contemporary thinkers, from Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak to Avery Gordon and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a general introduction and six section introductions by the editors.

From Freud’s and Adorno’s rejection of the occult, to Derrida’s rehabilitation of the spectral turn, this volume presents a compelling argument for a continued interest in the noisy ghosts of our cultureNot content to limit their remit, the editors have chosen brilliant extracts that explore trauma, memory and history, tracing the spectral through literary theory and criticism, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and economics. It is a book which is strong enough to include an auto-critique of its structuring concept, while showing why that concept still remains vital today. An invaluable collection on the uncanny and the ghostly which should haunt its readers for years to come. * Dr. Pamela Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Sussex, UK *
In this compelling anthology, editors María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren bring together core texts on the study of ghosts, spectres, and haunting as cultural manifestations ... A dynamic corpus of perspectives that challenges, and delights, with its range and depth -- Kirsten Møllegaard, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, USA * Folklore *
The Spectralities Reader is a welcoming invitation to the recent séance with our unfinished past. Its editors prove to be perfect spirit guides, providing steely clarity to a realm that often befuddles and bewitches. -- Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UK

Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Vice-Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he also directs the NWO-funded research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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ISBN 13	9781441105592
ISBN 10	144110559X
Title	The Spectralities Reader
Author	Maria Pilar Blanco
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2013-10-10
Number of pages	584
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