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UNINA9910452211603321 |
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Peterson Christopher <1972-> |
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Titolo |
Kindred specters [[electronic resource] ] : death, mourning, and American affinity / / Christopher Peterson |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Death in literature |
Mourning customs in literature |
Kinship in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Giving up the geist -- Beloved's claim -- The haunted house of kinship -- The kinship of strangers, or beyond affiliation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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