Performing Loss: Sonic Rhetoric in Maya Lin's What Is Missing?
by Marilyn DeLaure




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Marilyn DeLaure (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of San Francisco. The author acknowledges Sarah Burgess and Joan Faber McAlister for their invaluable feedback on several drafts of this essay. She also thanks Liminalities editor Michael LeVan, Bernard Armada, two anonymous reviewers, Casey Carter at the What Is Missing? Foundation, and Amy Bond at Cornell University.

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