Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-161) and index.
Contents:
Haunted narratives: women writing the ghostly in early Gothic fiction / Lisa Kröger -- City of ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen's wartime stories / Stefania Porcelli -- Those "whose deaths were not remarked": ghostly other women in Henry James's The turn of the screw, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The yellow wallpaper, and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Jana M. Tigchelaar -- These ghosts will be lovers: the "cultural haunting" of class consciousness in Ian McEwan's Atonement / Karley K. Adney -- The spectral queerness of white supremacy: Helen Oyeyemi's White is for witching / Amy K. King -- In the spirit of reconciliation: migrating spirits and Australian postcolonial multiculturalism in Hoa Pham's Vixen / Jessica Carniel -- Haunting mothers: alternative modes of communication in Geographies of home and Soledad / Betsy A. Sandlin -- Aesthetics of haunting as diasporic sensibility: Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust / Yu-yen Liu -- Women as cultural wound: Korean horror cinema and the imperative of Han / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- "Help me": interrogating capitalism, the specter of Hiroshima, and the architectural uncanny in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse / Paul Petrovic.
Summary:
"The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays aimed at 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."--Publisher's website.
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