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The spectral metaphor : = living ghosts and the agency of invisibility /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The spectral metaphor :/ Esther Peeren.
Reminder of title:	living ghosts and the agency of invisibility /
Author:	Peeren, Esther,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Marginality, Social, in literature. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137375858
ISBN:	113737585X (electronic bk.)

The spectral metaphor : = living ghosts and the agency of invisibility /
Peeren, Esther,

The spectral metaphor :living ghosts and the agency of invisibility /Esther Peeren. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?.

What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a potent 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 impacts on their ability to develop agency. From detailed readings of films (Stephen Frears's "Dirty Pretty Things", Nick Broomfield's "Ghosts" and Robert Altman's "Gosford Park"), a television series ("Upstairs, Downstairs") and novels (Hilary Mantel's "Beyond Black", Sarah Waters's "Affinity", Ian McEwan's "The Child in Time" and Bret Easton Ellis's "Lunar Park") emerges an inventive account of how the spectral metaphor, in its association with various modes of invisibility, can signify both dispossession and empowerment. In reworking the spectral insights of, among others, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Negri and Achille Mbembe, Peeren suggests new responses to the practices of marginalization and exploitation that characterize our globalized world.

ISBN: 113737585X (electronic bk.)

Source: 708984Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

939745
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM1136

Dewey Class. No.: 302.5/45

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