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The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility

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By (author): E. Peeren

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781137375841

About E. Peeren

Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis Netherlands. She authored Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture (2008) and co-edited Popular Ghosts (2010) and The Spectralities Reader (2013).

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