Nouri Gana

Signifying Loss (eBook, ePUB)

Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611480351
• Artikelnr.: 38332390

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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