Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude

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    • Erickson, Daniel

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Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude

Daniel Erickson

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • The spectral metaphor
  • Realizing absence in Beloved
  • Absenting presence in Beloved
  • Spectral and metaphorical domains in Beloved
  • Spectral excess and metaphorical supplementation in Beloved
  • Spectral and ideological figuration in the Eighteenth brumaire
  • Spectral history in One hundred years of solitude
  • Ideological mirages in One hundred years of solitude
  • Ideology, magical realism and metaphor in One hundred years of solitude
  • Conclusion : the unfinished business of the reader

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This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Table of Contents

The Spectral Metaphor Realizing Absence in Beloved Absenting Presence in Beloved Spectral and Metaphorical Domains in Beloved Spectral Excess and Metaphorical Supplementation in Beloved Spectral and Ideological Figuration in The Eighteenth Brumaire Spectral History in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ideological Mirages in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ideology, Magical Realism and Metaphor in One Hundred Years of Solitude Conclusion: The Unfinished Business of the Reader

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