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The Spectral Metaphor - Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Hardcover)
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The Spectral Metaphor - Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Hardcover)
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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.
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