Avery F. Gordon Ghostly matters

haunting and the sociological imagination

"In this unique and compelling book, Avery F. Gordon considers the cultural experience of haunting. Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela, Ghostly Matters demonstrates that past or shadowy social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Ghostly Matters scrutinizes the evidence of things barely seen for what they can tell us about the relationship between knowledge, power, and experience....

Engels | University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MI | 2008

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