The Spectral Metaphor Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility
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 ghos
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The Spectral Metaphor
10.1057/9781137375858 - The Spectral Metaphor, Esther Peeren
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10.1057/9781137375858 - The Spectral Metaphor, Esther Peeren
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INTERSUBJECTIVITIES AND POPULAR CULTURE: Bakhtin and Beyond
Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility Esther Peeren Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10.1057/9781137375858 - The Spectral Metaphor, Esther Peeren
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The Spectral Metaphor
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