Signifying loss
Subtitle: toward a poetics of narrative mourning
By: Nouri Gana
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757819
Subjects: Grief; Grief in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Political aspects; Signifying (Rhetoric); Loss (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thresholds of mourning: Freud and after; title: Horizons of desire, horizons of mourning: Joyce's Dubliners; title: The vicissitudes of melancholia in Freud and Joyce; title: Kincaid's claim: the poetics and politics of melancholia; title: The ineluctable modality of "posthumous infidelity": the ethics of mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun; title: Formless form: Elias Khoury's City gates and the poetics of trauma; title: Coda: the politics of mourning.