The Spectral Metaphor [electronic resource] : Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility /
Peeren, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 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?Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures and television.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Film History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Screen Studies.