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The Spectral Metaphor
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Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
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Artikel-Nr:
9781349477487
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2014
Seiten:
228
Autor:
E. Peeren
Gewicht:
293 g
Format:
216x140x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands. She authored Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture (2008) and co-edited Popular Ghosts (2010) and The Spectralities Reader (2013).
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.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Spectral Metaphor 1. Forms of Invisibility: Undocumented Migrant Workers as Living Ghosts in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things and Nick Broomfield's Ghosts 2. Spectral Servants and Haunting Hospitalities: Upstairs, Downstairs, Gosford Park and Babel 3. Spooky Mediums and the Redistribution of the Sensible: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black 4. Ghosts of the Missing: Multidirectional Haunting and Self-Spectralization in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park Afterword: How to Survive as a Living Ghost? Notes Bibliography Index