Kindred specters : death, mourning, and American affinity /

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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Автор: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2007.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr
Зміст:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.