Ghostly Matters - Avery F. Gordon

Ghostly Matters

Avery F. Gordon

出版时间

2008-02-29

ISBN

9780816654468

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

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.

Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

目录
Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction xv
1 Her Shape and His Hand 3
2 Distractions 31

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pp. 1-28
活过了,解放了,第四章ghostly matters挺一词多义的,鬼魂问题、鬼魂带来的麻烦、鬼魂是重要的、鬼魂事实 总体来说是对莫里森小说《beloved(宠儿)》的历史性解读,比较偏向外部解读,不熟悉美国历史以及历史概念在英文里的对应专有名词就会难读懂…… 蛮喜欢Emancipation is enslavement这一句,以及里面提到的黑人奴隶叙述(黑奴志)在一个法令禁止奴隶接受教育的时代,以偷窃的方式窃取证据来指控系统之罪,以犯罪的方式质疑犯罪的系统的吊诡之处,证明与展示自己的不可能,真实性被信任的不可能,对我来说,被迫证明可信亦始终将是一个创伤记忆
选读。文笔很好。“世俗的启迪是一种遭遇鬼魂般的在场、徘徊着的过去、看似不可见者那幽明的在场的方式。……你已然以这样或那样的方式被卷入、被牵连其中,这就是为什么,如果你不驱逐或杀死鬼魂,或将它缩减为你已有能力管辖的东西,当它出现在你面前时,它将令你有必要对它采取行动。……鬼魂会登记,会煽动,这就是为什么我们必须与之亲切交谈,学习它如何说话,掌握其生命世界的全部,它的欲望和立场。……它那一切强力的、令人费解的陈述,都是为你而准备的。我们必须给它一个好客的接待,但胜利地清算鬼魂总是需要偏袒生者。因为归根结底,闹鬼关乎如何将一个生命的影子转化为一个未经弱化的生命,其影子在一种和平和解的精神中轻柔地触摸着。在这个必然是集体的事业中,终点(而根本不是结局)属于每个人。”
选读。Ghost as a social figure
"The ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life"
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