The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film

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.

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