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Zusatztext This impressive collection of essays lays to rest any notion that ghosts should be confined to limiting conceptual categories. Deploying a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary approach, Popular Ghosts rehabilitates ghosts from their dark shadows into the glare of the everyday and exposes the ubiquity of the ghostly, where and how it resides in the cultural imagination and beyond. Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Reader in Literary Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol Informationen zum Autor Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film. María del Pilar Blanco is Lecturer in Spanish American Literature, Santander Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, at Trinity College, and Associate Lecturer in Spanish at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK. She has published on the haunted landscapes of the Americas, and is beginning work on a project dealing with the interface between scientific invention and poetic inventio in the works of fin-de-siècle Spanish American authors. Klappentext Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.> Vorwort Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Zusammenfassung Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration. Ghosts are ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory and in literary and visual culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Mar í a del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, "Introduction" I. Genealogies of the Ghost Julian Wolfreys, "Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf" Martin Harries, "Beckett's Ghost Light" Peter Hitchcock, "Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin?" Justin Sausman, "Where are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity" Colin Davis, "The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amen á bar's The Others and the Return of the Dead" II. Spectral Politics of the Contemporary Caroline Herbert, "National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar" Georgiana Banita, "Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11" Esther Peeren, "Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe" Michael Cuntz, "The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants" Benjamin D'Harlingue, "Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze" III. Chasing Ghosts In(to) the 21st Century Karen Williams, "The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV" Alissa Burger, "Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings" Catherine Spooner, "The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's Sea of Souls " IV. Other Ghostly Spheres Arno Meteling, "Genius Loci: Memory, Me...
