The Spectral Metaphor
Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility| By: | E. Peeren |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137375841 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137375858 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.