TY - GEN digital ID - 131559413 TI - Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction PY - 2016 SN - 9781137410245 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - Linguistics KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - Literature KW - Amerindian literature KW - geletterdheid KW - fantasy KW - filosofie KW - literatuur KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - DeLillo, Don KW - Morrison, Toni KW - Auster, Paul KW - Roth, Philip KW - Robinson, Marilynne KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131559413 AB - 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. ER -