This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered. The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack, the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead. In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their traces.
| ISBN: | 9781138856820 |
| Publication date: | 6th March 2017 |
| Author: | Christina Lee |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc The arts: general topics The Arts: art forms The environment Museology and heritage studies Photography and photographs Architecture |
This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered. The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack, the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise, and the body as a site for re-corporealising the disappeared and dead. In ruminating on the afteraffects of spectral spaces on human experience, the anthology importantly foregrounds the ethical and political imperative of engaging with ghosts and following their traces.
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings features in the following genres: Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, The arts: general topics, The Arts: art forms, The environment, Museology and heritage studies, Photography and photographs, Architecture
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings is available in Paperback, Hardback
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings was written by Christina Lee and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings has 220 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
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