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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
©2007.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr |
Table of Contents:
- Giving up the geist
- Beloved's claim
- The haunted house of kinship
- The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.