Ghosts Seeking Substitutes: Female Suicide and Repetition

The idea of ghosts seeking substitutes both creates and controls horror. Unjust or unclean deaths not only leave traces, but reproduce themselves indefinitely. Here, Huntington focuses on the suicides within this category of unclean deaths, with other kinds of substitute-seeking ghosts as comparison...

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Published in:Late imperial China 2005-06, Vol.26 (1), p.1-40
Main Author: Huntington, Rania
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Deaths
Females
Ghosts
Suicides & suicide attempts
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Summary:The idea of ghosts seeking substitutes both creates and controls horror. Unjust or unclean deaths not only leave traces, but reproduce themselves indefinitely. Here, Huntington focuses on the suicides within this category of unclean deaths, with other kinds of substitute-seeking ghosts as comparison, because suicide is the psychologically and culturally complex case.
ISSN:0884-3236
1086-3257
1086-3257
DOI:10.1353/late.2005.0007