Kristeva's Severed Head in Iraq: Antoon’s The Corpse Washer

This paper offers a Kristevan reading of Antoon's The Corpse Washer. Although this text focuses specifically on Arab/Muslim culture, which cannot be translated into a racial category, this reading is meant to show the pertinence of Kristevan psychoanalytic theory in a non-Western context.  One...

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Main Author: Frances L. Restuccia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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Online Access:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/858