The Spectral Metaphor
Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| 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.
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.
