Autore	Sweeney Kate <1978->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina	393
Soggetto topico	Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States Mourning customs - United States Undertakers and undertaking - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8203-4689-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the Fishes DISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464938503321

Autore	Singleton Jermaine <1974->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/896073
Soggetto topico	American literature - African American authors - History and criticism Grief in literature Mourning customs - United States African Americans - Race identity - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-252-09771-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Melancholy That Is Not Her Own: The Evolution of the Blueswoman and the Consolidation of; 2 Reconstituted Melancholy: Impossible Mourning and the Prevalence of Ritual and Race in August; 3 The Melancholy of Faith: Reading the Gendered and Sexual Politics of Testifying in James Baldwin's; 4 Queering Celie's Same-Sex Desire: Impossible Mourning, Trauma, and Heterosexual Failure in Alice; 5 A Clearing beyond the Melancholic Haze: Staging Racial Grieving in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus and Coda: On Conformity to the Category of Time (Race)Notes; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460760803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 177 pages )
Disciplina	393/.9
Collana	Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Soggetto topico	Law - Social aspects - United States Mourning customs - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61376-530-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas -- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff -- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi -- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady -- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini -- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders -- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910494733503321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (ix, 177 pages )
Disciplina	393/.9
Collana	Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Soggetto topico	Law - Social aspects - United States Mourning customs - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-61376-530-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Law and mourning: an introduction / Martha Merrill Umphrey, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas -- Mourning in America : what's law got to do with it? / Ray D. Madoff -- The mourning after : posthumous sperm retrieval and the new laws of mourning / Shai J. Lavi -- To weep Irish : keening and the law / Andrea Brady -- Listening within the "grief of distortions" / Ann Pellegrini -- Psychoanalysis, mourning, and the law : Achreber's paranoia as crisis of judging / Mark Sanders -- Does mourning become the law? : commodity fetishism and political contestation / Catherine Kellogg.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910965764103321