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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Auteur principal: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.

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