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T1 'I Know that I Exist’: Lorna Gibb’s _A Ghost Story_ as an Assemblage of Matter and Spirit.
A1 Arias-Doblas, María Rosario
K1 Gibb, Lorna - Crítica e interpretación
K1 Literatura inglesa
K1 Espiritualismo - En la literatura
AB In this chapter I discuss Lorna Gibb’s _A Ghost Story_ (2015), which offers a different take on the story of the spirit celebrity, Katie (and John) King. In this novel the narrator is the disembodied voice of the ghost, a first-person narrative voice that moves in and out of time and place, that it plays a part in people’s lives, as well as possesses the body of several mediums and spiritualist believers in their seánces and theatrical acts, like those of the Davenport brothers. The novel shows a clear rejection of binaries such as human/nonhuman, matter/spirit, embodiment/disembodiment, and in so doing it underlines the fluidity of the multiple elements (bodies, parts, terms) involved in Spiritualism, and in séances particularly. My aim is to examine the shifting relations between those elements, as well as the tension between human-nonhuman, matter-spirit through an assemblage lens, drawing on social theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as Bruno Latour.
PB University of Warsaw Press
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38099
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38099
LA eng
NO This essay is part of the grant PID2022-137881NB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and, by “ERDF A way of making Europe” by the “European Union”.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026