Ghostly Generation Games: Multidirectional Hauntings and Self-Spectralization in Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Journal | Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction |
| Volume | Issue number | 53 | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 305-321 |
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| Abstract | This article analyzes the relationship between haunting, mourning and inheritance in Bret Easton Ellis's novel Lunar Park, with a specific focus on gender. Read in conjunction with Derrida's theory of spectrality and Abraham and Torok's concepts of the crypt and the phantom, Lunar Park is seen to transform the linear patriarchal economy of haunting featured in Specters of Marx by making haunting multidirectional and evoking the possibility of self-spectralization. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2010.523443 |
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