Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film (eBook)

Lisa Kröger is a freelance writer and teaches academic writing to graduate students at Mississippi State University. Melanie R. Anderson is an instructional assistant professor of American literature at the University of Mississippi.

IntroductionPart One: The Gothic and the Ghostly Chapter One: Haunted Narratives: Women Writing the Ghostly in Early Gothic Fiction Lisa KrögerChapter Two: City of Ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime StoriesStefania PorcelliChapter 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 HousekeepingJana M. TigchelaarPart Two: Spectral Figures and Spectral HistoriesChapter Four: These Ghosts Will Be Lovers: The “Cultural Haunting” of Class Consciousness in Ian McEwan’s AtonementKarley K. AdneyChapter Five: The Spectral Queerness of White Supremacy in Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for WitchingAmy K. KingChapter Six: In the Spirit of Reconciliation: Migrating Spirits and Australian Postcolonial Multiculturalism in Hoa Pham’s VixenJessica CarnielChapter Seven: Haunting Mothers: Alternative Modes of Communication in Geographies of Home and SoledadBetsy A. SandlinPart Three: Spectral ProjectionsChapter Eight: Aesthetics of Hauntings as Diasporic Sensibility in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the DustYu-yen LiuChapter Nine: Women as Cultural Wound: Korean Horror Cinema and the Imperative of HanAndrew Hock Soon NgChapter Ten: Interrogating Capitalism, The Specter of Hiroshima, and the Architectural Uncanny in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s PulsePaul PetrovicBibliographyAbout the Contributors