Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in
con-temporary Anglophone novels - Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes
(1998), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986),
Vivienne Cleven's Her Sister's Eye (2002), Ben Okri's The Famished
Road (1991), Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995) - in which the
figure of the ghost is often entrusted with the task of questioning
Western culture and history. After an in-troductory chapter which
investigates Freud's concept of the un-canny along with theoretical
issues raised by Iain Chambers and Jacques Derrida, Ghostly
Alterities discusses the novels from different critical
orientations (postcolonialism, poststructuralism and
psychoanalysis), presenting ghostliness as intersecting with three
major themes: the problem of the spectre's visibility and "bodily"
nature; the particular melancholic state of mind the ghost can
trigger which brings about a very special kind of (g)hospitality;
the spectral nature of history and its relationship with the
characters' personal memory.
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