Postcolonial Ghosts

• Other Authors: Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak, Judith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; translation; politics; mythology; intertextuality; spectrality; postcolonial literature; ghost; commonwealth; ghostwriting
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonia...