Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity
ISBN: 9780816653942
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Death in literature; Mourning customs in literature; Kinship in literature;

Probing Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of AEsocial death, o 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 AEotherso can be reanimated only if we avow the mortality and mourning that lie at the root of all kinship relations."


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