Panic and Mourning : : The Cultural Work of Trauma /

Panic and Mourning : : The Cultural Work of Trauma / / ed. by Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Cátia Ferreira.

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‘Panic’ and ‘mourning’ are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the afterma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Agostinho, Daniela,
Banki, Luisa,
Brisley, Lucy,
Colla, Elisabetta,
Duindam, David,
Ganito, Tânia,
Gonçalves, Diana,
Miljković, Milan,
Pehkoranta, Anna,
Ribeiro, António Sousa,
Surmann, Frauke,
Torres, Eduardo Cintra,
Tygstrup, Frederik,
Wang, Ban,
Weissberg, Liliane,
HerausgeberIn:
Agostinho, Daniela,
Antz, Elisa,
Ferreira, Cátia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Culture & Conflict , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (285 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Literary negotiations
  • 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: Globalisation, 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
  • Notes on the Editors
  • Notes on Contributors

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