Discriminating spirits: cultural source theory and the human-nonhuman boundary.
Ghosts symbolically represent the social recognition of a subject's personhood as well as the legitimacy of that individual's experience with inequality since many haunting narratives center grievance. Marginalized groups may be so oppressed that they do not warrant acknowledgement, thus protecting...
| Published in: | Mortality Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 348 - 364 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2020
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