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The Ontology of the Ship: Celestial Ecologies in Tade Thompson’s Rosewater and Octavia Butler’s Dawn
This essay argues that our discourses about objects, specifically space ships, can be read ontologically because our construction of space ships reflects dimensions of affect relative to our own being. Looking specifically at two science fiction texts, Octavia Butler’s Dawn (1987) and Tade…
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Western Cosmology and Space Conquest
The belief that the universe can be studied as a physical object has led to the development of a branch of physics called cosmology. Cosmologists are in charge of writing the grand narrative of the universe. This conception is based on the negation of the singularity of our point of view, which is…
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H.D.’s War Ghosts
Against the typical postwar understanding of occultism as apolitical and escapist, this article showcases a striking instance of “engaged occultism” in the modernist poet H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]. By focusing on the poet’s spiritualist experiments during World War Two, notably her communications with…
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“The hero in a ghost story laughs a nimble laugh” : The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts ou la réinvention du canon littéraire états-unien chez Maxine Hong Kingston
In this article, I will show that the numerous ghosts in The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston equate the spectrality of minor literatures, especially Chinese American literature, which are somehow still not considered as equally representative of American literature as other works by white…
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Conjuring Identity: Spirits in Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend stages how spirits are not only guides towards personal identity, but also towards the construction of ethnic identity, or ethnogenesis. The spirits conjured by Annis help her through the terrible hardships she has to undergo not only by giving her advice but also by granting her…
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Conversations avec un corbeau : le spectre intertextuel dans Grief Is the Thing with Feathers de Max Porter
This article focuses on the spectral figure of the crow in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. A sui generis novella, written in an experimental, hybrid form that interweaves prose narratives and poetic fragments with a play-like structure, the book begins like a diary of mourning. When…
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« This thin world of ghosts, of outlines, of abstract densities » : l’écriture hantée de Rosamond Lehmann
Scarred by the trauma of the First World War, Rosamond Lehmann’s characters evolve in a spectral world marked by absence and death. For the writer, the ghostly representation of post-war life is both a literary and a metaphysical issue. Caught between an ineffable past and an uncertain future, the…
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« The Comforts of Home » de Flannery O’Connor, ou la voix des autres en soi
« The Comforts of Home », a short story published by Flannery O’Connor in 1960, features Thomas, a young local historian who will do anything to get rid of Sarah, the young nymphomaniac his mother has charitably taken into their home despite her son’s objections. All along, Thomas is inhabited by…
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Voix d’outre-tombe dans la littérature féminine américaine de la fin du xixe siècle : « The Amber Gods » (Harriet Prescott Spofford), « Number 13 » (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) et « ‘One of Us’ » (Grace Elizabeth King)
This paper examines the specific contribution of what can be regarded as a subgenre in the well-documented tradition of women writing supernatural fiction, namely those stories in which spectral voices invade the textual space by assuming the position of authority granted to the narrator. These…
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« I walked in a world of their invention » : conversations spectrales, d’Henry James à Genesis et Kate Bush
This article analyses Genesis’s ‘The Musical Box’ (Nursery Cryme, 1971) and Kate Bush's ‘The Infant Kiss’ (Never For Ever, 1980) in the light of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) and examines the dynamics of appropriation at work in this intermedial dialogue between literary classics and…