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the Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and Agency of Invisibility
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the Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and Agency of Invisibility
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the Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and Agency of Invisibility
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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.