Putting Mourning to Work: Making Sense of 9/11

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-88

  Engle, Karen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Derrida; Freud; identification; mourning; nationalism; social theory; visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846399739     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276407071570     Document Type: Article

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