Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

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U of Minnesota Press, 1997 - Social Science - 252 pages
'Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. She shows how fiction writing can sometimes function as a social force, as a repository of memories that are too brutal, to debilitating, and too horrifying to register through direct historical or social science narratives...'--George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego

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distractions
31
the other door its floods of tears with consolation
63
not only the footprints but the water too and what
137
there are crossroads
193
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