Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thresholds of mourning: Freud and after -- Horizons of desire, horizons of mourning: Joyce's Dubliners -- The vicissitudes of melancholia in Freud and Joyce -- Kincaid's claim: the poetics and politics of melancholia -- The ineluctable modality of "posthumous infidelity": the ethics of mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun -- Formless form: Elias Khoury's City gates and the poetics of trauma -- Coda: the politics of mourning.

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