Mourning speech: Haunting and the spectral voices of nine-eleven

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-114

  Gunn, Joshua ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archive; Audience; Dualism; Haunting; Melancholia; Mourning; Repertoire; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949090522     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293042000288344     Document Type: Article

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