Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude
By: Daniel Erickson.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Morrison, Toni; García Márquez, Gabriel, -- 1928-; Metaphor in literature; Ghosts in literature; Literature and history; Magic realism (Literature)
Description: This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost--the textual figure of metaphor and history--in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Màrquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The spectral metaphor; title: Realizing absence in Beloved; title: Absenting presence in Beloved; title: Spectral and metaphorical domains in Beloved; title: Spectral excess and metaphorical supplementation in Beloved; title: Spectral and ideological figuration in the Eighteenth brumaire; title: Spectral history in One hundred years of solitude; title: Ideological mirages in One hundred years of solitude; title: Ideology, magical realism and metaphor in One hundred years of solitude; title: Conclusion : the unfinished business of the reader.