 | Avery Gordon - Social Science - 1997 - 268 pages
...haunting 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 and subjectivity make social life. The ghost or the apparition is one form by which something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not... | |
 | Josephine D. Lee, Imogene L. Lim, Yuko Matsukawa - Asian American arts - 2002 - 390 pages
...seething presence. . . . The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life" (1997, 8). Works Cited Billman, Carol. 1986. The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the... | |
 | Sneja Marina Gunew - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 188 pages
...phenomenon of great import. . . . The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life Being haunted draws us affectively, sometimes against our will and always a bit magically, into the... | |
 | Janet Wolff - Art - 2003 - 196 pages
...ghostly aspects of it.... 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 and subjectivity make social life. The ghost or the apparition is one form by which something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not... | |
 | Francie Cate-Arries - History - 2004 - 356 pages
...and historical memory": "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 and subjectivity make social life." 5 In his attempt to answer the question, "How do we reckon with what modern history has rendered ghostly?"... | |
 | Isabel Cuñado - Fiction - 2004 - 214 pages
...haunting is taking place. The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life. (Gordon 2001. 8) [Si el encantamiento describe lo que parece no estar ahí pero a menudo es una presencia... | |
 | J. Jack Halberstam, Judith Halberstam - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...invisible. She remarks that "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 and subjectivity make social life" (8). Obviously, the ghost for Gordon is not quite the same as the ghost for Kay, yet both texts share a... | |
 | Julia Bleakney - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 222 pages
...haunting is taking place. The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life" (8). When public ceremonies simplify the war's history, what is edited from the proceedings? At least, the... | |
 | Aruna D'Souza, Tom McDonough - Architecture - 2006 - 208 pages
...ghostly aspects of it. . . . 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 and subjectivity make social life. The ghost or the apparition is one form by which something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not... | |
 | Deborah Kapchan - History - 2007 - 356 pages
...taken-for-granted realities. . . . 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 and subjectivity make social life" (1997: 8). What is it that haunts the Celtic musicians? Is it the lost ritual of the Celtic past? Is... | |
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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 and subjectivity make social life. 
