{"product_id":"the-spectral-metaphor-living-ghosts-and-the-agency-of-invisibility-9781137375841","title":"The Spectral Metaphor Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important and original work of criticism. The perspective it adopts is fresh and gripping; the application of the 'spectral metaphor' to non-literal situations, such as the 'invisibility' of migrant workers and domestic servants, expands the sense of 'spectrality' in fascinating new ways; the scholarship and theoretical acumen are superb throughout; the written style of the work is elegant, precise and accessible; and the political and ethical implications of the study are lucidly spelled out, without any attempt prematurely to resolve the most difficult issues.\" - Colin Davis, Royal Holloway University of London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction: The Spectral Metaphor 1. Forms of Invisibility: Undocumented Migrant Workers as Living Ghosts in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things and Nick Broomfield's Ghosts 2. Spectral Servants and Haunting Hospitalities: Upstairs, Downstairs, Gosford Park and Babel 3. Spooky Mediums and the Redistribution of the Sensible: Sarah Waters's Affinity and Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black  4. Ghosts of the Missing: Multidirectional Haunting and Self-Spectralization in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park Afterword: How to Survive as a Living Ghost? Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769066979671,"sku":"9781137375841","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spectral-metaphor-living-ghosts-and-the-agency-of-invisibility-9781137375841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}