02347nam 2200613 a 450 991082295000332120200520144314.00-8166-5394-1(CKB)1000000000482441(EBL)328393(OCoLC)476125780(SSID)ssj0000187480(PQKBManifestationID)11182502(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187480(PQKBWorkID)10143295(PQKB)11068647(MiAaPQ)EBC328393(OCoLC)191729124(MdBmJHUP)muse39322(Au-PeEL)EBL328393(CaPaEBR)ebr10212632(CaONFJC)MIL522375(EXLCZ)99100000000048244120070404d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKindred specters death, mourning, and American affinity /Christopher Peterson1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (200 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4984-7 0-8166-4983-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Giving up the geist -- Beloved's claim -- The haunted house of kinship -- The kinship of strangers, or beyond affiliation.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.Death in literatureMourning customs in literatureKinship in literatureDeath in literature.Mourning customs in literature.Kinship in literature.810.9/3548Peterson Christopher1972-1657907MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822950003321Kindred specters4065468UNINA