Signifying Loss

Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvNouri Gana

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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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Utgivningsdatum2014-06-10
Mått154 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611485783

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Preface: The Poetics of MourningAcknowledgments1. Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After2. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's Dubliners3. The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce4. Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia5. The Ineluctable Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun6. Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and the Poetics of TraumaCoda: The Politics of MourningNotesBibliographyIndex

Gana masterfully orchestrates his many theoretical sources, keeping them subordinate to his own consistently original argument. His conceptual inventiveness is remarkable, yet—what a rarity!—his prose is as visceral as it is theoretical. He elaborates a poetics of mourning, translating it into terms of such figures as catachresis and prosopopeia; yet he never forgets that what is at stake in the movements of mourning figurality is affect of the most profound sort. Gana's important book shows that the relatively new field of mourning studies is rich in implications for postcolonial criticism.