..., especially Harry from the model film The Trouble with Harry, return in several corpse-related situations across the oeuvre. Certain props take on added significance in the doubling game, especially the mirror signaling character layers beyond the visible. The chapter analyzes the many doubling mechanisms...

... Chapter 4 undertakes a queer-feminist analysis of the contemporary Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s videos about intimacy and exchange with the dead. From 1997 until the mid-2000s this artist returned repeatedly to a hospital morgue to perform with corpses in different scenes and...

... This chapter positions the analysis as the team initiated its investigation alongside Mamerto Pizarro's corpse, as relatives sang laments. It juxtaposes Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" and psychoanalytic work on mourning with laments. Psychoanalysis prompts reflection on the alternation...

... surviving old and knotted plants known as awicha (grandmother) are left standing. When coca leaves are harvested three times a year, they go through a drying process that likens them to the dead, who are converted from foul-smelling corpses into beneficial ancestors, like the sacred mummified bodies of...

.... Reprinted with permission of the publisher. 1. or Fthe rest of my translation of Alokdhanwa’s “Janata Ka Aadmi,” see Ami - tava Kumar, “The Poet’s Corpse in the Capitalist’s Fish-­Tank,” Critical Inquiry 23 (Summer 1997): 894–909. 2. ohn J Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever (New York: Vintage...

..., assisted by Bro. J. B. Wray, U.N.I.A. charter borne by two ladies of the Honorary Advisory Board. The corpse, draped in the Red, Black and Green, followed by about sixteen pall-bearers in 267 ...

... be seen wending its way towards Liberty Hall under the strains of the dead march played by our local band. At the gate the corpse was met by the chaplain in his robes, and the service, according to the Universal N[eg]ro Ritual, commenced. After the prayers and singing of hymn, “Near’er My God to...

... seen wending its way towards Liberty Hall under the strains of the dead march played by our local band. At the gate the corpse was met by the chaplain in his robes, and the service, according to the Universal N[eg]ro Ritual, commenced. After the prayers and singing of hymn, “Near’er My God to Thee...

.... Advocating multispecies ontologies, healers insisted on positioning nonhumans, including vampire bats, as active participants in knowledge production. This chapter positions the analysis as the team initiated its investigation alongside Mamerto Pizarro's corpse, as relatives sang laments. It juxtaposes...

...? Herr Headman wipes his sweating brow under his silk tophat. And they-the twelve cold Citizens-the State-the Ministers-the Chancellor-feel safer now. For Oberfahten's mouth was muzzled in his flat And in an Austrian inn stiffened the corpse of Bell. Now Van der Lubbe's ghost goes headless down...