Biography, Literature and Literary Studies, History and Criticism
The Spectral Metaphor

The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

Hardback Published on: 30/01/2014
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • ISBN: 9781137375841
  • Number of pages: 216
  • Dimensions: 218 x 143 x 18 mm
  • Weight: 414g
  • Languages: English