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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Tác giả chính: Peterson, Christopher, 1972-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2007.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttjfr
Mục lục:
  • Giving up the geist
  • Beloved's claim
  • The haunted house of kinship
  • The kinship of strangers; or, Beyond affiliation.