Kindred specters : death, mourning, and American affinity /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Mort dans la littérature.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la littérature.
Parenté dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Death in literature
Kinship in literature
Mourning customs in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.

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