Mourning in America : race and the politics of loss /
"Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael B...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The politics of mourning in America
- Antigone and the agonistic politics of mourning
- The imaginary city : consensual mourning from Pericles to John Rawls
- There is trouble here : there is more to come : Greek tragedy and the work of mourning
- A splintering and shattering activity : truth, reconciliation, mourning
- Afterword : "Black Lives Matter" and the democratic work of mourning.