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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Robin Roberts |
ISBN: | 9781496815569 1496815564 |
OCLC Number: | 983525257 |
Description: | ix, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Robin Roberts. |
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"In Subversive Spirits Robin Roberts focuses on the ways female ghosts across centuries of popular horror narrative challenge the power of male authors to script women's stories. With spellbinding research, bewitching style, and mesmerizing arguments, Roberts reinterprets such classic ghosts as La Llorona, the Woman Warrior, and Beloved, and introduces us to the female ghosts of film and stage comedy, TV drama, and--most innovative--the digitized heritage ghosts who mediate history for tourists in displays at Blenheim Palace and the Old Louisiana State House. This book belongs in every pop culture enthusiast's library."--Jane Donawerth, professor emerita of English at the University of Maryland and author of Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction and Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900 "A compelling exploration of the female ghost in American and British popular culture. Roberts's lively and wide-ranging analysis of this figure demonstrates that she has haunted our books, our visual media, and even our historical monuments since the opening decades of the twentieth century. As a character whose return from the dead invites living women to write beyond the ending of their own life stories, the female ghost is, as Roberts persuasively argues, a literary creation as worthy of study as her vampire and werewolf counterparts. Highly recommended."--Lisa Yaszek, professor of science fiction studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and faculty coordinator for SciFi@Tech Read more...


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- Ghosts in art.
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