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Signifying Loss - Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Hardcover)
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Signifying Loss - Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Hardcover)
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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. 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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