The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

By Esther Peeren

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137375841
• ISBN13: 9781137375841
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"