María del Pilar Blanco is University Lecturer in Spanish American Literature and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination (2012).

Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film.

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María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities

I. The Spectral Turn

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Spectral Turn / Introduction

Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Spectrographies

Colin Davis, État Présent: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, from Introduction: The Spectral Turn

Julian Wolfreys, Preface: On Textual Haunting

Roger Luckhurst, from The Contemporary London Gothic and the Limits of the "Spectral Turn"

II. Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary / Introduction

Avery F. Gordon, from her shape and his hand

Achille Mbembe, from Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola

Arjun Appadurai, Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai

Peter Hitchcock, from ( ) of Ghosts

III. The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media / Introduction

Tom Gunning, To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision

Jeffrey Sconce, from Introduction to Haunted Media

Akira Mizuta Lippit, from Modes of Avisuality: Psychoanalysis - X-ray - Cinema

David Toop, from Chair creaks, but no one sits there

Allen S. Weiss, Preface: Radio Phantasms, Phantasmic Radio

IV. Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race / Introduction

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from Ghostwriting

Carla Freccero, Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past

Sharon Patricia Holland, from Introduction: Raising the Dead

Renée L. Bergland, from Indian Ghosts and American Subjects


V. Possessions: Spectral Places

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Possessions: Spectral Places / Introduction

Anthony Vidler, Buried Alive

Ulrich Baer, To Give Memory a Place: Contemporary Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition

David Matless, A Geography of Ghosts: The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts

Giorgio Agamben, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters

VI. Haunted Historiographies

María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Haunted Historiographies / Introduction

Judith Richardson, A History of Unrest

Jesse Alemán, The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest

Alexander Nemerov, Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History

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