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Résumé :
Contents Introduction: Theories of the Ghost in a Transhispanic Context by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen Part I. Ghostly Encounters: Haunted Histories Chapeter 1: The Museum of Memory: Spectral Presences and Metaphoric Re-membering by Megan Corbin Chapter 2: The Bright Future of the Ghost: Memory in the Work of Javier Mar?as by Isabel Cu?ado Chapter 3: The Spectrality of Political Violence: Exhuming Guatemala's Haunted Past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family Resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When The Ground Turns in its Sleep by Susana S. Mart?nez Part II. The Persistence of Violence: Trauma as Haunting Chapter 4: Apparitions and Absence: Spectrality in Contemporary Novels of the Disappeared by Karen Wooley Martin Chapter 5: The Literalization of Trauma's Specter and the Problematization of Time in Aparecidos by Charles St-Georges Chapter 6: Phantom Children: Spectral Presences and the Violent Past in Two Films of Contemporary Spain by Sarah Thomas Chapter 7: Fog Instead of Land: Spectral Topographies of Disappearance in Colombia's Recent Literature and Film by Juliana Mart?nez Part III. Still Images: The Living and the Dead Chapter 8: Framing and Feeling Immigration: Haunting Visuality and Alterity in Ramito de hierbabuena by N. Michelle Murray Chapter 9: Memento Mori: Photography and Narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie Me ver? Llorar by Marta Sierra Part IV. Invisible Hands: Specters of the Market Economy Chapter 10: Cubagua's Ghosts by Juan Pablo Lupi Chapter 11: Portraits of the Walking Dead: Transgressing Genres and (In)visible Demographics in Maurice Echeverr?a by Mar?a del Carmen Ca?a Jim?nez Chapter 12: Haunting Capitalism: Biutiful, the Specter, and Fantasies of the Global Market by Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca Bibliography Index About the Contributors...

Biographie:

Alberto Ribas-Casasayasis assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Santa Clara University.

Amanda L. Petersen is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and affiliated faculty for the Latin American Studies and Gender Studies programs at the University of San Diego.