Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories: Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

by Gina Wisker

Book Overview

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women's ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030890562
• ISBN13: 9783030890568
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"