Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film
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20th-century literature
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film studies
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twentieth-century literature
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- ISBN 9781611495652
- Weight: 281g
- Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
