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Staging Loss: An Introduction

This introductory chapter sets the critical stage for the book by considering the commemorative in relation to the cultural and theoretical landscape of the early twenty-first century. It provides a macro-level overview of the parts and chapters of Staging Loss, and begins to identify the threads and fragments that evolve and coalesce across the book's fourteen chapters.