Signifying Loss - Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.

List of contents

Preface: The Poetics of Mourning
Acknowledgments
1. Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After
2. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's Dubliners
3. The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce
4. Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia
5. The Ineluctable Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun
6. Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma
Coda: The Politics of Mourning
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nouri Gana is assistant professor of comparative literature and Near Eastern languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Nouri Gana
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2011
• EAN: 9781611480344
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-034-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 527 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama