[T]hese figures hovering over the bridge were ghosts that lived in people’s bodies. They slept and rested in those bodies without the people being aware of them, or they could wake up and break free for a little and wander around outside the people’s bodies but only when the people were frightened.

'Well-Founded Fear': Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction / F. Pozzoli - In: Middle Eastern Gothics : Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past / [a cura di] K. Grumberg. - [s.l] : University of Wales Press, 2022 Dec. - ISBN 9781786839282. - pp. 211-230

'Well-Founded Fear': Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction

F. Pozzoli
2022

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[T]hese figures hovering over the bridge were ghosts that lived in people’s bodies. They slept and rested in those bodies without the people being aware of them, or they could wake up and break free for a little and wander around outside the people’s bodies but only when the people were frightened.
Iraqi fiction; Gothic; voice; narratology
Settore L-OR/12 - Lingua e Letteratura Araba
dic-2022
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