The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film (eBook, ePUB)

Spectral Identities
Redaktion: Kröger, Lisa B.; Anderson, Melanie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays expanding the concepts of "ghost" and "haunting" beyond literary tools used to add supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility, memory and trauma, and history. Using a wide scope of texts from varying time periods and cultures, including fiction and film, this collection explores the phenomenon of social ghosts. What does it mean, for example, to be invisible, to be a ghost, particularly when that ghost is representative of a person or group living on the margins of society? Why do specific types of ghosts tend to haunt certain cultures and/or places? What is it about a people's history that invites these types of hauntings? The essays in this book, like pieces of a puzzle, approach the larger questions from diverse individual perspectives, but, taken together, they offer a richly detailed composite discussion of what it means to be haunted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611494532
• Artikelnr.: 38418951

Autorenporträt

Lisa Kröger is a freelance writer and teaches academic writing to graduate students at Mississippi State University. Melanie R. Anderson is an instructional assistant professor of American literature at the University of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: The Gothic and the Ghostly
Chapter One: Haunted Narratives: Women Writing the Ghostly in Early Gothic
Fiction
Lisa Kröger
Chapter Two: City of Ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen's Wartime Stories
Stefania Porcelli
Chapter Three: Those "whose deaths were not remarked:" Ghostly Other Women
in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The
Yellow Wallpaper, and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Jana M. Tigchelaar
Part Two: Spectral Figures and Spectral Histories
Chapter Four: These Ghosts Will Be Lovers: The "Cultural Haunting" of Class
Consciousness in Ian McEwan's Atonement
Karley K. Adney
Chapter Five: The Spectral Queerness of White Supremacy in Helen Oyeyemi's
White Is for Witching
Amy K. King
Chapter Six: In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Migrating Spirits and
Australian Postcolonial Multiculturalism in Hoa Pham's Vixen
Jessica Carniel
Chapter Seven: Haunting Mothers: Alternative Modes of Communication in
Geographies of Home and Soledad
Betsy A. Sandlin
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