TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coughlan,David
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
SN  - 9781137410245(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint)
KW  - Literature, Modern-20th century
KW  - America-Literatures
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Contemporary Literature
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41024-5
ER  -