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200 10$aLiterature and the remains of the death penalty /$fPeggy Kamuf
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (94 pages)
225 1 $aIdiom: Inventing Writing Theory
300   $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
330 8 $aThis work pursues Derrida's assertion, in 'The Death Penalty, Volume I', that 'the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.' The main question this text poses is: How does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind, a Christian-inspired death penalty in what professes to be a democracy?
410  0$aIdiom (Fordham University Press)
606   $aCapital punishment in literature
606   $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aCapital punishment in literature.
615  0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
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