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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Hlavní autor: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2007.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr
Obsah:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.