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Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pa
By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida),...
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By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying
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Contents; Preface: The Poetics of Mourning; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After; Chapter 02. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's Dubliners; Chapter 03. The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce; Chapter 04. Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia; Chapter 05. The Ineluctable Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun; Chapter 06. Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma; Coda: The Politics of Mourning; Notes; Bibliography; Index