The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts And The Agency Of Invisibility

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.

• • Author: E. Peeren
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jan 30, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 226 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137375841
• • ISBN-13: 9781137375841