Haunting Without Ghosts

Juliana MartÍnez is an assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at American University, in Washington, DC. Her research, focused on the intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America, has appeared in numerous journals, and she is a coeditor of the 2019 special issue "Violent Tales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico” for Revista de Estudios HispÁnicos. She regularly teaches courses on Latin American literature, film, and history; narratives of violence (particularly in Colombia and Mexico); gender and sexuality; and women writers in Latin America. MartÍnez has also written for popular venues, including the Guardian and the Huffington Post.

• Acknowledgments  IntroductionChapter 1. Evelio Rosero’s Spectral Landscapes of DisappearanceChapter 2. Beyond Vision: Haptic Perception and Contested Spaces in the Films of William Vega, Jorge Forero, and Felipe GuerreroChapter 3. The Revenants: Deferred Burials and Suspended Mourning in the Works of Juan Manuel EchavarrÍa, Beatriz GonzÁlez, and Erika DiettesEpilogue  NotesWorks CitedIndex

[Haunting without Ghosts] is a book written with critical patience to regard the disturbing presence of the specters of enforced disappearance, the violently and intentionally silenced or erased from Colombian history...Haunting without Ghosts not only can teach scholars, but also cultural practitioners who wish to deal with the ethical issues of the representation of historical and structural violence...It is a book to take to heart the harrowing muted cries of the voiceless. (KULT Journal)