Book chapter
From Spectres of Horror to ‘The Beautiful Death’: Re-Corporealising the Desaparecidos of Argentina
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings, pp.182-194
Routledge
2017
Abstract
This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. At its core, it asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? The book takes Jacques Derrida's notion of hauntology and his now-famous characterisation of the spectre as that in which "time is out of joint" as a starting point to examine entanglements of past, present and future. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to threaten, destabilise and sometimes even comfort; ranging from former sites of violence and ruin to the nostalgic home, from haunting impressions in literature to spectral presences in architecture and photography. [Book Details]
Details
- Title
- From Spectres of Horror to ‘The Beautiful Death’: Re-Corporealising the Desaparecidos of Argentina
- Authors
- Sonia Tascon (Author) - University of Western Sydney
- Contributors
- Christina Lee (Editor)
- Publication details
- Spectral Spaces and Hauntings, pp.182-194
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9781138856820
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449630902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter