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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.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- America --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- American fiction --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Auster, Paul --- DeLillo, Don --- Morrison, Toni --- Robinson, Marilynne --- Roth, Philip --- USA --- Summers, Marilynne --- Robinson, Marilin --- רובינסון, מרילין --- Schriftstellerin --- 1944 --- -Lillo, Don <> --- De Lillo, Don --- Lillo, Don De --- Birdwell, Cleo --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Schriftsteller --- New York, NY --- 1936 --- -Osṭer, Pol --- Auster, Paul Benjamin --- אוסטרת, פול --- Lyriker --- Dramatiker --- Musiker --- Librettist --- Anglistik --- Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft --- Newark, NJ --- Benjamin, Paul --- Hustvedt, Siri --- Davis, Lydia --- 1947 --- -03.02.1947 --- -USA --- United States of America --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- United States --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Meiguo --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- US --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika --- Lillo, Don <> --- -Summers, Marilynne --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika