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GHOSTLY ALTERITIES. SPECTRALITY AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
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| By: |
Bianca Del Villano, Koray Melikoglu (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£39.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3898217140 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783898217149 |
| Publisher: |
IBIDEM-VERLAG, JESSICA HAUNSCHILD U CHRISTIAN SCHON |
| Pub. date: |
22 August, 2007 |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Synopsis: |
Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in con-temporary Anglophone novels - Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986), Vivienne Cleven's Her Sister's Eye (2002), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995) - in which the figure of the ghost is often entrusted with the task of questioning Western culture and history. After an in-troductory chapter which investigates Freud's concept of the un-canny along with theoretical issues raised by Iain Chambers and Jacques Derrida, Ghostly Alterities discusses the novels from different critical orientations (postcolonialism, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis), presenting ghostliness as intersecting with three major themes: the problem of the spectre's visibility and "bodily" nature; the particular melancholic state of mind the ghost can trigger which brings about a very special kind of (g)hospitality; the spectral nature of history and its relationship with the characters' personal memory. |
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black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon |
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Non-returnable |
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