02753nam 2200661 a 450 991045647030332120200520144314.01-283-16355-197866131635541-61148-035-3(CKB)2550000000039343(EBL)730752(OCoLC)741492733(SSID)ssj0000541278(PQKBManifestationID)12211215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541278(PQKBWorkID)10492289(PQKB)10626723(MiAaPQ)EBC730752(Au-PeEL)EBL730752(CaPaEBR)ebr10483536(CaONFJC)MIL316355(EXLCZ)99255000000003934320100614d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSignifying loss[electronic resource] toward a poetics of narrative mourning /Nouri GanaLewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University Press20111 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61148-578-9 1-61148-034-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Thresholds of mourning: Freud and after -- Horizons of desire, horizons of mourning: Joyce's Dubliners -- The vicissitudes of melancholia in Freud and Joyce -- Kincaid's claim: the poetics and politics of melancholia -- The ineluctable modality of "posthumous infidelity": the ethics of mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun -- Formless form: Elias Khoury's City gates and the poetics of trauma -- Coda: the politics of mourning.By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.Loss (Psychology) in literatureGrief in literatureGriefPolitical aspectsPsychoanalysis and literatureSignifying (Rhetoric)Electronic books.Loss (Psychology) in literature.Grief in literature.GriefPolitical aspects.Psychoanalysis and literature.Signifying (Rhetoric)809/.93353Gana Nouri707274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456470303321Signifying loss1348661UNINA