Spectral Realism
Cecilia Valdésas Gothic Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Goldgel Carballo (0000-0003-4103-0583, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-329 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2018.1485560 |
| OpenAlex | W2895682140 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Focussing on Cirilo Villaverde's canonical novel Cecilia Valdés (1882), this article explores the neglected spectral dimension of its realism. I argue that, while explicitly denying the existence of ghosts, Villaverde engages with their false but real appearance as the only way to accurately represent a world marked by the invisibilization of certain lives. I call this dimension of his writing spectral realism: a mode of representing socially produced absences that is deeply dependent on the 'world of illusions' that the realist writer claims to have left behind and, in particular, on the interweaving of Gothic tropes and Catholic imagery
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Dimension (graph theory · Illusion · Literature · Mode (computer interface · Pure mathematics · Realism · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
Narrative Discourse
Scenes of subjection
Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other
Cecilia Valdés
Foundational Fictions
Specters of the Atlantic
Love & death in the American novel
Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture
Freedom from Liberation
Freedom's Mirror
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
Ghostly Demarcations
Hauntology, spectres and phantoms
Slavery and Social Death
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Conceiving Freedom
Modernity Disavowed
Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery
Apropiaciones de realidad en la novela hispanoamericana de los siglos XIX y XX
Fiction and Its Phantoms
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |