This book examines formal peculiarity of four contemporary novels and argues that they structurally simulate haunting in order to initiate a radical reformulation of the way texts engage readers. In their recent works, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje and J.M. Coetzee conjure up specters that primarily affect the form of narrative. For the four contemporary authors who address the diverse readership that their internationally marketed works have gained, a ghost is a valuable figure for eliciting through texts a non-prescriptive and anti-universal communication. Challenging the...