01993nam 2200469 450 991081363430332120230817190921.00-8232-8480-80-8232-8231-7(CKB)4100000007101044(MiAaPQ)EBC5559941(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046611(EXLCZ)99410000000710104420181115d2019 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterature and the remains of the death penalty /Peggy KamufFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2019.1 online resource (94 pages)Idiom: Inventing Writing TheoryThis edition previously issued in print: 2018.0-8232-8230-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.This work pursues Derrida's assertion, in 'The Death Penalty, Volume I', that 'the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.' The main question this text poses is: How does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind, a Christian-inspired death penalty in what professes to be a democracy?Idiom (Fordham University Press)Capital punishment in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCapital punishment in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.809.933556Kamuf Peggy1947-251640MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813634303321Literature and the remains of the death penalty3996328UNINA