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Informationen zum Autor Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses , which won the René Wellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I . Klappentext Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and Book of Addresses , which won the Ren¿ellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including The Death Penalty I . Zusammenfassung How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The Death Penalty, is pursued in the analyses of four fictional texts. The context of the remains of the death penalty in the contemporary U.S. frames these engagements and extends their pertinence today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 1. Beginning with Literature 17 2. Orwell's Execution 41 3. Is Justice Burning? 61 4. The Sentence Is the Story 95 5. Playing the Law 123 Postmortem 145 Acknowledgments 149 Bibliography 151 Index 159
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Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include
To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida and
Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize. She is co-editor of the seminars of Jacques Derrida and has translated several books by Derrida, including
The Death Penalty I.
