Janice Hume Obituaries in American ...

Janice Hume Obituaries in American tillage Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000 198 pp isbn 1-57806-241-1 $4500 cloth; isbn 1-57806-242X $1800 paper.

common of the most exciting components of recent work in American Studies has been the careful concentration in succession often forgotten elements of everyday life, uncompounded bodys in some cases so evidently common-sensical, in such a manner apparently trans-historical, that they have been given little or no attention according to scholars seeking to identify greater cultural forms in order to illuminate the past. of the like kind has been the perverse fate of the obituary, which is