Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American AffinityU of Minnesota Press, 2007 - 188 lappuses The refusal to recognize kinship relations among slaves, interracial couples, and same-sex partners is steeped in historical and cultural taboos. In Kindred Specters, Christopher Peterson explores the ways in which non-normative relationships bear the stigma of death that American culture vehemently denies. Probing Derridas notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Pattersons concept of social death, Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence condition all kinship relations. Through Charles Chesnutts The Conjure Woman, Peterson lays bare concepts of self-possession and dispossession, freedom and slavery. He reads Toni Morrisons Beloved against theoretical and historical accounts of ethics, kinship, and violence in order to ask what it means to claim ones kin as property. Using William Faulkners Absalom, Absalom! he considers the political and ethical implications of comparing bans on miscegenation and gay marriage. Tracing the connections between kinship and mourning in American literature and culture, Peterson demonstrates how racial, sexual, and gender minorities often resist their social death by adopting patterns of affinity that are strikingly similar to those that govern normative relationships. He concludes that socially dead others can be reanimated only if we avow the mortality and mourning that lie at the root of all kinship relations. Christopher Peterson is visiting assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College. |
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1 Giving Up the Geist | 37 |
2 Beloveds Claim | 68 |
3 The Haunted House of Kinship | 97 |
4 The Kinship of Strangers or Beyond Affiliation | 135 |
Notes | 157 |
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