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
Table of Contents:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.

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