Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives

By Karen Wooley Martin

Book Overview

Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma, affect in visual and material culture, and the economic and social pressures of globalization and neoliberal economics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611487366
• ISBN13: 9781611487367
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"