The Spectral Metaphor Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanModern20th CenturySocial ScienceMedia StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialPerforming ArtsFilmHistory & CriticismTelevisionRegional StudiesLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguistics
2014Book
Author(s)Esther Peeren
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137375841
LanguageEnglish
