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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mourning customs in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Death in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Parente dans la litterature.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la litterature.
Mort dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780816653942

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