The Spectral Metaphor

Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: E. Peeren ISBN: 9781137375858
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: January 30, 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: E. Peeren
ISBN: 9781137375858
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: January 30, 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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.

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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.

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