Loss
Subtitle: The Politics of Mourning
Contributors: David L. Eng (Editor); David Kazanjian (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780520232365
Subjects: Cultural studies; World history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Loss (Psychology); General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Social history; Psychic trauma; Anthropology - Cultural; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Social aspects
First sentence: It is the custom of police agencies and newspapers to report events in precise units of time and thereby to shore up for the rest of us the impossible sense of time's and especially the past's actuality.