This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past.
This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past.
Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She is the co-editor of Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language and Standardisation and Variation in English Language(s) and author of Intralingual Translation of British Novels: A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective. Karine Bigand is Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has recently co-authored Faces and Places. Northern Ireland, 1975-2020.
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Introduction Part 1: Shackled identities Chapter 1. Ghosts of the Past and the Oxford English Dictionary Chapter 2. The Invisible American Shoeshine Boy: Creation and Persistence of a Ghostly Icon 3. Australian Ghosts: Representations of the Past in Australia 4. Ghosts from the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives in Scotland and the Displacement of Memory Part 2: Multi-layered identities 5. Ghosting the Victorians in A.S. Byatt, Kate Atkinson and Michèle Roberts's neo-Victorian fiction 6. Whose Past is it Before Us? The Shaping of Identity in Scotland's 2014 Referendum on Independence 7. Haunted by the Lessons of 'the Good War': Post-Cold War Contestation of World War II Narratives Part 3: Reclaimed identities 8. Haunting in a Postcolony: Race, Place and Intergenerational Trauma on a South African Campus 9. First World War Memorial Ghosts and the Reshaping of South African Identity: Remembering the SS Mendi in Delville Wood 10. Blyton's Ghosts: Childhood Receptions in India and Britain 11. Decolonial Poetics: Ghosts of Coloniality, Capitalism, and Care in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Introduction Part 1: Shackled identities Chapter 1. Ghosts of the Past and the Oxford English Dictionary Chapter 2. The Invisible American Shoeshine Boy: Creation and Persistence of a Ghostly Icon 3. Australian Ghosts: Representations of the Past in Australia 4. Ghosts from the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives in Scotland and the Displacement of Memory Part 2: Multi-layered identities 5. Ghosting the Victorians in A.S. Byatt, Kate Atkinson and Michèle Roberts's neo-Victorian fiction 6. Whose Past is it Before Us? The Shaping of Identity in Scotland's 2014 Referendum on Independence 7. Haunted by the Lessons of 'the Good War': Post-Cold War Contestation of World War II Narratives Part 3: Reclaimed identities 8. Haunting in a Postcolony: Race, Place and Intergenerational Trauma on a South African Campus 9. First World War Memorial Ghosts and the Reshaping of South African Identity: Remembering the SS Mendi in Delville Wood 10. Blyton's Ghosts: Childhood Receptions in India and Britain 11. Decolonial Poetics: Ghosts of Coloniality, Capitalism, and Care in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
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