Kindred specters : death, mourning, and American affinity / Christopher Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Christopher, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

Mourning customs in literature.

Kinship in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Giving up the geist

Beloved's claim

The haunted house of kinship

The kinship of strangers, or beyond affiliation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5394-1

OCLC:

476125780