The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities reads a variety of texts, from the Gothic novels of late eighteenth-century England to modern Asian horror films, arguing that, as different as these stories are, the theme beneath the hauntings is the same. The essays in this collection all develop the concept of social ghosting and explore what it means to be ghostly while alive, marginalized at the edges of community and society.
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities reads a variety of texts, from the Gothic novels of late eighteenth-century England to modern Asian horror films, arguing that, as different as these stories are, the theme beneath the hauntings is the same. The essays in this collection all develop the concept of social ghosting and explore what it means to be ghostly while alive, marginalized at the edges of community and society.
Introduction Part One: The Gothic and the Ghostly Chapter One: Haunted Narratives: Women Writing the Ghostly in Early Gothic Fiction Lisa Kröger Chapter Two: City of Ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen's Wartime Stories Stefania Porcelli Chapter Three: 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 Part Two: Spectral Figures and Spectral Histories Chapter Four: These Ghosts Will Be Lovers: The "Cultural Haunting" of Class Consciousness in Ian McEwan's Atonement Karley K. Adney Chapter Five: The Spectral Queerness of White Supremacy in Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching Amy K. King Chapter Six: In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Migrating Spirits and Australian Postcolonial Multiculturalism in Hoa Pham's Vixen Jessica Carniel Chapter Seven: Haunting Mothers: Alternative Modes of Communication in Geographies of Home and Soledad Betsy A. Sandlin Part Three: Spectral Projections Chapter Eight: Aesthetics of Hauntings as Diasporic Sensibility in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust Yu-yen Liu Chapter Nine: Women as Cultural Wound: Korean Horror Cinema and the Imperative of Han Andrew Hock Soon Ng Chapter Ten: Interrogating Capitalism, The Specter of Hiroshima, and the Architectural Uncanny in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse Paul Petrovic Bibliography About the Contributors
Introduction Part One: The Gothic and the Ghostly Chapter One: Haunted Narratives: Women Writing the Ghostly in Early Gothic Fiction Lisa Kröger Chapter Two: City of Ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen's Wartime Stories Stefania Porcelli Chapter Three: 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 Part Two: Spectral Figures and Spectral Histories Chapter Four: These Ghosts Will Be Lovers: The "Cultural Haunting" of Class Consciousness in Ian McEwan's Atonement Karley K. Adney Chapter Five: The Spectral Queerness of White Supremacy in Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching Amy K. King Chapter Six: In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Migrating Spirits and Australian Postcolonial Multiculturalism in Hoa Pham's Vixen Jessica Carniel Chapter Seven: Haunting Mothers: Alternative Modes of Communication in Geographies of Home and Soledad Betsy A. Sandlin Part Three: Spectral Projections Chapter Eight: Aesthetics of Hauntings as Diasporic Sensibility in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust Yu-yen Liu Chapter Nine: Women as Cultural Wound: Korean Horror Cinema and the Imperative of Han Andrew Hock Soon Ng Chapter Ten: Interrogating Capitalism, The Specter of Hiroshima, and the Architectural Uncanny in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse Paul Petrovic Bibliography About the Contributors
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