The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

Peeren, E.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-01-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137375841

DOI: 10.1057/9781137375858

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 216