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We Are What We Mourn

Uppal, Priscila

2008,2009,2014

Overview

In We Are What We Mourn Priscila Uppal examines why and how the work of mourning has drastically changed in the latter half of the twentieth century, focusing on the strong pattern in contemporary English-Canadian elegy that emphasizes connection rather than separation between the living and the dead. Uppal offers a penetrating reading of Canadian elegies that radically challenges English and American elegy traditions as well as long-standing psychological models for successful mourning. She sets up useful categories for elegy study - parental elegies, elegies for places, and elegies for cultural losses and displacements - and suggests where elegy and mourning studies might be headed post 9/11.

• Publisher: MQUP,McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: 20th century / 21st century / Canadian poetry / Canadian poetry (English) / Canadian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism / Canadian poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism / Death in literature / Elegiac poetry / Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism / Elegiac poetry, Canadian (English) / Grief in literature / History and criticism / Language & Literature / Mourning customs in literature
• ISBN: 0773534563, 9780773534568