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Ghost novels
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Ghost novels
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haunting as form in the works of Toni Morrision, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and J.M. Coetzee
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Haunting as form in the works of Toni Morrision, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and J.M. Coetzee
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eng
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Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation
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DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- --Criticism and interpretation
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- --Criticism and interpretation
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Literatures in English
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Ghosts in literature
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This dissertation examines formal innovations in contemporary novels that revise the way reading happens. Reading recent works by Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje and J.M. Coetzee, I show how these innovative novelists utilize the very impossibility of properly representing others as a narrative device. I argue that the novelists design their works in such a way that reading them becomes an encounter with ghosts that confront the reader. My introductory chapter discusses the use of ghost figures in post-structuralist thought and traces their usefulness back to the Enlightenment. In the first part of the dissertation, I analyze two American novels, Love and The Body Artist to consider the influence of postmodern spectrality that emerges from reproduction of images. The phantom narrator of Love discloses and overthrows the distorted representation of African American women by inviting the reader to witness the "murder" of the Father's spirit. Chapter Three proposes that The Body Artist performs a haunting that is marked with the ghostly traces of tele-technologies. By incarnating the specter that comes out of the internet on the body of the protagonist, DeLillo attempts to instill in his novel the subversive potential of what escapes visual representation: the body and the spirit. In the second part of my dissertation, I turn to postcolonial fictions to investigate how similar narrative strategies transform the representation of none-western others. My reading of Anil's Ghost reveal that its convoluted narrative functions like the spiritual ritual it depicts--by suggesting alternative ways to become perceptive to others, it forces the reader to experience the void and grief the disappeared leave behind. In my final chapter I argue that an authorial ghost in Slow Man highlights fissures in the text, including the individual histories of Australian immigrants. Through my analysis of these texts, I demonstrate how these writers seek to return what has been forgotten or dismissed to disturb the reader’s comfortable and safe reading space with the "real" power of ghosts. Their ghosts break out of the world of phantoms, paradoxically representing the corporeality of others and traversing the border between the book and the reader.
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by JaeEun Yoo
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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