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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Autor principal: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2007.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr
Taula de continguts:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.