“Another kind of dead”: Writing Spectrality in Morrison’s Beloved

This article attempts to think together Derrida’s notion of spectrality in/of writing, “hauntology,” and Morrison’s literary creation of the ghost Beloved in her 1986 neo-slave narrative. Beloved’s fungibility must be apprehended together with her presence as a living ghost, a reality in African Ame...

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Main Author: Claudine Raynaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2025-05-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/13497
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