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Spectral Metaphor

Name: Spectral Metaphor
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 02516048
Price: 21740 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Esther Peeren
ISBN: 9781137375841

Esther Peeren

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02516048

Publishers Palgrave Macmillan, January 2014

What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a potent metaphor in the contemporary... Full description

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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.