Signifying Loss : Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning.
Title:
Signifying Loss : Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning.
Author:
Gana, Nouri.
ISBN:
9781611480351
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface: The Poetics of Mourning -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After -- Chapter 2: Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's Dubliners -- Chapter 3: The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce -- Chapter 4: Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia -- Chapter 5: The Ineluctable Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun -- Chapter 6: Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma -- Coda: The Politics of Mourning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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