Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction (Hardcover)

Name: Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
Author: David Coughlan

von David Coughlan Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

1st ed. 2016 - Erschienen 11.11.2016 - Gebunden, 236 Seiten, 216mm x 153mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng

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Covers a significant range of notable American writers including Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth Offers a unique and compelling theoretical study of ghosts and spectrality in their various forms including phantoms, shadows, hauntings, and spirits Provides an original theoretical context within which to discuss contemporary American fiction and questions of home, mourning, survival, and self and other.

This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan¿s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter¿that is, without ghost writing.

David Coughlan is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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