Loss : the politics of mourning / edited by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian ; with an afterword by Judith Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eng, David L., 1967-

Kazanjian, David, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--20th century.

Social history.

Loss (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Loss (Psychology).

Psychic trauma--Social aspects.

Psychic trauma.

Melancholy--Social aspects.

Melancholy.

Melancholy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss-of warfare, disease, and political strife-this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists--expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy. Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements. In particular, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Returning the Body without Haunting

Black Mo'nin'

Ambiguities of Mourning

Catastrophic Mourning

Between Genocide and Catastrophe

Passing Shadows

Melancholia and Moralism

II. Spatial Remains

The Memory of Hunger

Remains to Be Seen

Mourning Becomes Kitsch

Theorizing the Loss of Land

Left Melancholy

All Things Shining

A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia

Passing Away

Ways of Not Seeing

Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism

Resisting Left Melancholia

Afterword

Contributors

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613277121

9781597347228

1597347221

9780520936270

0520936272

9781283277129

1283277123

OCLC:

85786787