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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 Derrida's notion of spectrality as well as Orlando Patterson's concept of "social death," Peterson examines how death, mourning, and violence condition all kinship relations. Through Charles Chesnutt's The' Conjure Woman', Peterson lays bare concepts of self-possession and dispossession, freedom and slavery. He reads Toni Morrison's Beloved' against theoretical and historical accounts of ethics, kinship, and violence in order to ask what it means to claim one's kin as property. Using William Faulkner's 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.

Death in literature. --- Kinship in literature. --- Mourning customs in literature.

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Desire in literature. --- Love in literature.

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Gender identity in literature

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Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to explor

Autism. --- Autism in literature.

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Die facettenreiche Integration der echten Skepsis in die Philo-sophie war für Hegel der Grund-baustein seiner modernen Philo-sophie der Freiheit. Zentral für Hegels Konzept sind die Inklusion der Skepsis in theo-retischer und praktischer Absicht sowie die Offenlegung der bei-den Ausdrucksarten des Pyrrho-nismus, als einer Form die zwi-schen Logik und Metaphorik, zwischen Argument und Erzäh-lung, zwischen Philosophie und Literatur oszilliert. Das Vollbringen der Skepsis schafft erst die geeigneten Fun-damente für einen Idealismus der Freiheit, der gegen jede Art von Dogmatismus, Fanatismus und Fundamentalismus steht: Der Skeptizismus bildet die ‚negative und freie Seite jeder Philosophie‘.

Skepticism. --- Skepticism in literature.