Publications

Publication details [#40408]

Gunn, Joshua. 2004. Mourning speech: haunting and the spectral voices of nine-eleven. Text and Performance Quarterly 24 (2) : 91–114.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | conflict | language use | mass media

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study proposes a psychoanalytic theory of haunting, privileging the object of speech in cultural and theatrical performance, and employs this theory to examine the mass media exploitation of the spectral voices of nine-eleven.