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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2007.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.