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The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

2014

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Publisher's 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781137375841
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2014
DEWEY: 809.933552
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 216
Weight: 414g
Height: 218mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 18mm