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Signifying Loss
Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning
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2011
Summary
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. First, by examining the dynamics between narrative tropes and mourning, it elaborates a poetics of narrative mourning in which prosopopoeia becomes the master trope of mourning while catachresis the master trope of melancholia and chiasmus of trauma. Second, it develops a situated and flexible theory of mourning, capable of adjusting to diverse contexts in which the ethical and political stakes of mourning are different-in short, Signifying Loss calls for the formulation of geopolitical and differential tactics of mourning and mournability rather that for a clear cut strategy of inconsolability.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-034-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-035-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
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Contents No access
Preface: The Poetics of Mourning No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After No access Pages 21 - 46
Chapter 2: Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce’s Dubliners No access Pages 47 - 71
Chapter 3: The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce No access Pages 72 - 89
Chapter 4: Kincaid’s Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia No access Pages 90 - 121
Chapter 5: The Ineluctable Modality of “Posthumous Infidelity”: The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun No access Pages 122 - 152
Chapter 6: Formless Form: Elias Khoury’s City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma No access Pages 153 - 178
Coda: The Politics of Mourning No access Pages 179 - 182
