Deleuze and Memorial Culture : : Desire, Singular Memory and the Politics of Trauma / / Adrian Parr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Parr, Adrian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Desire is Social --; CHAPTER 2 Utopian Memory --; CHAPTER 3 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial --; CHAPTER 4 9/11 News Coverage --; CHAPTER 5 US Military Abuses at Abu Ghraib --; CHAPTER 6 The Amish Shootings --; CHAPTER 7 Ground Zero --; CHAPTER 8 Berlin and the Holocaust --; CHAPTER 9 Trauma and Consumption --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748631582; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748631582?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Adrian Parr.

Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, she outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public remembrance.This book offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.Key FeaturesDifficult Deleuzian concepts are explained and defined and applied to studies in culture, media and communicationsOffers a detailed study of the sociology and politics of collective remembranceCase studies include the holocaust, 9/11 and the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison