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Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

Hardcover

Literary CriticismDeath & DyingGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415147581
ISBN13: 9780415147583
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 27 1997
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls performative writing, she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction.

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