E. Peeren
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2014
9781349477487
The Spectral Metaphor
Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
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Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2014
ISBN13: 9781349477487
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Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American cultural imagination, Peeren proposes that certain subjects – migrants, servants, mediums and missing persons – are perceived as living ghosts and examines how this figuration can signify both dispossession and empowerment or agency.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349477487
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spectral Metaphor 1. Forms of Invisibility: Undocumented Migrant Workers as Living Ghosts in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things and Nick Broomfield's Ghosts 2. Spectral Servants and Haunting Hospitalities: Upstairs, Downstairs, Gosford Park and Babel 3. Spooky Mediums and the Redistribution of the Sensible: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black 4. Ghosts of the Missing: Multidirectional Haunting and Self-Spectralization in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park Afterword: How to Survive as a Living Ghost? Notes Bibliography Index