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..., 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...

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... how the conventions of genre fiction such as horror and the crime novel expose the otherworldliness of a particular historical destruction: the femicides of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. It argues that 2666 instrumentalizes the figure of women’s corpses to produce grotesque excitement in repeated sexual...

... in the community over the form and content of death rituals and who may participate in them. A newly built prayer hall attached to a cremation ground has offered a ritual alternative to some. To others, the idea of a corpse, the ultimate in Zoroastrian impure material, being placed into the purest fire...

... nineteenth-century photography photojournalism corpses gatekeeping ...

... at a time of turmoil in Nicaragua, by way of Barthes's notions of fulguration and Julia Kristeva's understanding of abjection, the corpse, and corporeal excess. The chapter foregrounds the ability of the photograph's carnality to take the self to a point of undoing, of self-loss, what is introduced...

... 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...

... 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...