The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility by Esther PeerenEnglish | PDF | 2014 | 227 Pages | ISBN : 1349477486 | 2.7 MB
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.