Overview: .This book examinesrepresentations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-centuryfiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster,Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternatingwith shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in thephilosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993text, .Specters of Marx.. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows,haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compellingtheoretical context in which to read contemporary US liter
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