Ghostly Matters
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Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
Avery F. Gordon
overview
Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations.
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Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction xv
1 Her Shape and His Hand 3
2 Distractions 31
3 The Other Door, It's Floods of Tears with Consolation Enclosed 63
4 Not Only the Footprints But the Water Too and What Is Down There 137
5 There Are Crossroads 193
Notes 209
Bibliography 225
Index 243