E Peeren: 1 book
The Spectral Metaphor
Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
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.
