Deleuze and memorial culture : desire, singular memory and the politics of trauma / Adrian Parr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parr, Adrian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Memorials--Political aspects.

Memorials.

Memorialization.

Psychic trauma--Social aspects.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

199 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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 approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on media criticism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, urbanism, continetal philosophy and political economy.

A number of case studies are examined including the holocaust, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, 9/11, the Amish shootings in Pennsylvania USA, the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, as well as the consumption and reification of trauma.

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.

Contents:

1 Desire is Social 15

2 Utopian Memory 34

3 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial 54

4 9/11 News Coverage 76

5 US Military Abuses at Abu Ghraib 94

6 The Amish Shootings 112

7 Ground Zero 128

8 Berlin and the Holocaust 143

9 Trauma and Consumption 166.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748627547

0748627545

OCLC:

183148286