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Lorenz, Johnny Anderson.

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Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas (St. Lucia, Uruguay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, Derek Walcott).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas (St. Lucia, Uruguay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, Derek Walcott)./
Author:	Lorenz, Johnny Anderson.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-08, Section: A, page: 3161.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9983281
ISBN:	059989878X

Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas (St. Lucia, Uruguay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, Derek Walcott).
Lorenz, Johnny Anderson.

Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas (St. Lucia, Uruguay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, Derek Walcott). - 248 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-08, Section: A, page: 3161.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Haunted Cartographies: Ghostly Figures and Contemporary Epic in the Americas approaches "haunting" not as an encounter with a necessarily phantasmal terror but as a lived experience of history. This history has been shaped by genocide, diasporas, and disappearances endured by communities across the Americas, initiated by the Western project of "discovery," and continued through policies of "development." My study of literary texts spans the Americas because this broad scope affords me the opportunity to investigate a different kind of "American literature." My approach is not limited to the national borders both imagined and strictly guarded by legislators and border patrols. I take my lead from a ghost. If ghosts are the metonymic representations of communities relegated to the shadows---scripted as out of time, doomed, or vanishing---we must remember that ghosts are more than victims. They constitute a community without documents, the anti-citizens, the survivors who should be dead. Ghosts are the clever and recalcitrant travelers who cross borders and resist the too-easy dialectic of presence and absence, here and there, this world and that world, a First World and a Third World conjured by fences, papers, and guns.

ISBN: 059989878XSubjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas (St. Lucia, Uruguay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Marmon Silko, Derek Walcott).
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