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Panic and mourning : the cultural work of trauma /

Culture and conflict unavoidably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e. conflictual, interaction that inevitably support the key themes of the study of culture such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Agostinho, Daniela, Antz, Elisa, Ferreira, Cátia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Culture & conflict ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Literary negotations
  • A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation
  • Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W.G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives
  • Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996)
  • Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock
  • Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams
  • II. Visual resonances
  • Odysseus, Rowing
  • (Un- )Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze
  • The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian
  • Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art
  • Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China
  • III. (Re- )mediated affects and performances
  • Affective Spaces
  • Catastrophes in Sight and Sound
  • From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle
  • Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands
  • No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art.