Kindred Specters : Death, Mourning, and American Affinity.
Title:
Kindred Specters : Death, Mourning, and American Affinity.
Author:
Peterson, Christopher.
ISBN:
9780816653942
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Giving Up the Geist -- 2. Beloved's Claim -- 3. The Haunted House of Kinship -- 4. The Kinship of Strangers -- or, Beyond Affiliation -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Probing Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of Òsocial death,Ó 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 argues that socially dead ÒothersÓ can be reanimated only if we avow the mortality and mourning that lie at the root of all kinship relations.
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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