Literature and the remains of the death penalty / Peggy Kamuf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamuf, Peggy, 1947- author.

Series:

Idiom (Fordham University Press)

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Cover

LITERATURE AND THE REMAINS OF THE DEATH PENALTY

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Beginning with Literature

2. Orwell's Execution

3. Is Justice Burning?

4. The Sentence Is the Story

5. Playing the Law

Postmortem

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823284801

0823284808

9780823282319

0823282317