Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination - Softcover

Gordon, Avery F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816654468 ISBN 13: 9780816654468

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

Synopsis

“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.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is a new edition of Gordon's 1997 work. A sociologist teaching at U. of California, Santa Barbara, she uses the metaphor of haunting to reflect on how contemporary society hides from its past. Using the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela, as well as paintings, photographs and her own version of Marxist theory, Gordon argues that cur

About the Author:

Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0816654468
• ISBN 13: 9780816654468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272