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The Spectral Poetics of Diana Khoi Nguyen: Ghost Of (2018), a Hauntological Reading
This paper examines the spectral dimensions of Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of (2018), a poetry collection that employs the motif of the ghost to articulate mourning after the poet’s brother’s suicide. Using a hauntological framework, the paper analyses textual, structural, thematic, intertextual, and visual layers to propose a multifaceted reading of spectrality in contemporary poetry. Nguyen’s hybrid visual poems offer an exploration space that expands current theoretical understandings of spectral representation and widens the scope of research on the fantastic in poetry, an underexplored field. Ultimately, the analysis shows how Nguyen’s work challenges the threshold between the living and the dead, foregrounding the unstable ontology of reality, and how the author creates the “hesitant” atmosphere that characterises the fantastic.
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CAT, n. [Ir. cat; Fr. chat; D. kat; Dan. CAT-HOOK kat; Sw. katt; G. kater, or katze; L. catus; Vulgar Greek, xaris, or yaros; It. gatto; CAT-MINT Port. and Sp. gato; Lap. id.; Pol. kot; peta, so cal Russ. kots; Turkish keti; W. cath; Corn. CAT'S'-PAW kath; Arm. gaz or kaz; Basque catua.
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In Ar. kitta, is a male cat.
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a tackle on 2. A dupe;
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No. 56.] 1. A name applied to certain species of car- nivorous quadrupeds, of the genus Felis. The domestic cat needs no description. It is a deceitful animal, and when enraged, extremely spiteful. It is kept in houses, chiefly for the purpose of catching rats and CAT-TAIL, mice. The wild cat is much larger than the domestic cat. It is a strong, ferocious ani- mal, living in the forest, and very des- tructive to poultry and lambs.
The wild cat of Europe is of the same
reed, of the stance of tresses, &c 2. A substan-
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species with the domestic cat; the cata-CATABAP" mount, of N. America, is much larger and a distinct species.
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