ABSENTEES

An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in hum an communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or ci vil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a nobody, but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonpe rson are as...[Read more]