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Kindred specters : death, mourning, and American affinity /
Probing Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of social death, Christopher Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence condition all kinship relations. Tracing the connections between kinship and mourning in American literature and culture, Peterson...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Probing Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of social death, Christopher Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence condition all kinship relations. Tracing the connections between kinship and mourning in American literature and culture, Peterson argues that socially dead others can be reanimated only if we avow the mortality and mourning that lie at the root of all kinship relations. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 188 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816653942 0816653941 |