No time for mourning: The rhetorical production of the melancholic citizen-subject in the war on terror

Philosophy and Rhetoric

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-169

  Biesecker, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 61449512330     PISSN: 00318213     EISSN: 15272079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/par.2007.0009     Document Type: Article

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