Absentees
An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a "e;nobody,"e; but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Zone Books
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781942130482
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021