Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction - 9781137410238

This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David CoughlanÆs 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 specterùthat is, without ghost writing.

• | Author: David Coughlan
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 234 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 113741023X
• | ISBN-13: 9781137410238