 | Avery Gordon - Social Science - 1997 - 268 pages
...disenchanted world. If haunting describes how that which appears to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-forgranted...is taking place. The ghost is not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history... | |
 | Jost Hindersmann - Annual bibliography of English language and literature - 1997 - 280 pages
...Literature): If haunting describes how that which appears to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-for-granted...you like, that tells you a haunting is taking place [...] haunting is a very particular way of knowing what has happened or is happening. Being haunted... | |
 | Ram Mahalingam, Cameron McCarthy - Education - 2000 - 324 pages
...to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken -for- gran ted realities, the ghost is just the sign, or the empirical...you like, that tells you a haunting is taking place. — Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters As these opening quotations suggest, the social world in which we... | |
 | Julie Manga - Performing Arts - 2003 - 267 pages
...Haunting, Gordon suggests, describes how that which appears to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with takenfor-granted...tells you a haunting is taking place. . . . The ghost or the apparition is one form by which something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not there to... | |
 | Sneja Marina Gunew - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 188 pages
...superstition nor individual psychosis; it is a generalizable social phenomenon of great import, . . . The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person,...figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site w here history and subjectivity make social life — Being haunted draws us affectively, sometimes... | |
 | Anna Maria Cimitile - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 180 pages
...fuoco le implicazioni di una riflessione intorno ai fantasmi: thè ghost is just thè sign, or thè empirical evidence if you like, that tells you a haunting is taking piace... The way of thè ghost is haunting, and haunting is a very particular way of knowing what has... | |
 | Edward J. Hughes - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 187 pages
...To return to the notion of haunting invoked at the beginning of this chapter, Avery Gordon writes: 'The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person,...dense site where history and subjectivity make social life.'10 Cormery is haunted by his 198 father and by the forgotten in the graves of Solferino; Camus... | |
 | Diane L. Wolf - History - 2007 - 419 pages
...asserts, one must "confront the ghostly aspects of it" (1997: 7). "There is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-for-granted...you like, that tells you a haunting is taking place. . . . Investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life"... | |
 | Randall Fuller - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 232 pages
...Haunting of American Literature Enter GHOST ... Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. — Hamlet The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investivatinv ± J ooo it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life.... | |
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If haunting describes how that which appears to be not there is often a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-forgranted realities, the ghost is just the sign, or the empirical evidence if you like, that tells you a haunting is taking... 