Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty /
How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida's seminar The Death Penalty, is pursued in the analyses of four fictional texts. The context of the remains of the death penalty in the contemporary U.S. frames these engagements and exten...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Introduction; 1. Beginning with Literature; 2. Orwell's Execution; 3. Is Justice Burning?; 4. The Sentence is the Story; 5. Playing the Law; Postmorten; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.