Nouri Gana

Signifying Loss

Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning

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Produktbeschreibung

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781611480344
• ISBN-10: 1611480345
• Artikelnr.: 32878156

Autorenporträt

Nouri Gana is assistant professor of comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Poetics of Mourning Acknowledgments 1. Thresholds of Mourning:
Freud and After 2. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's
Dubliners 3. The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce 4.
Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia 5. The Ineluctable
Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid,
Derrida, and Ben Jelloun 6. Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and
the Poetics of Trauma Coda: The Politics of Mourning Notes Bibliography
Index