Panic and mourning : the cultural work of trauma / edited by Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Catia Ferreira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agostinho, Daniela.

Antz, Elisa.

Ferreira, Cátia.

Series:

Culture & Conflict

Culture & conflict ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Crises in literature.

Mourning customs in literature.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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 aftermath of a brutal disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath, while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by another catastrophic incident. From an international and inter-discipl

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

I. Literary negotiations

A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation / Ribeiro, António Sousa

Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives / Banki, Luisa

Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) / Miljković, Milan

Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock / Pehkoranta, Anna

Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams / Brisley, Lucy

II. Visual resonances

Odysseus, Rowing / Weissberg, Liliane

(Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze / Agostinho, Daniela

The Banality of Trauma: Globalisation, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Wang, Ban

Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art / Ganito, Tânia

"Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought": Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China / Colla, Elisabetta

III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances

Affective Spaces / Tygstrup, Frederik

Catastrophes in Sight and Sound / Torres, Eduardo Cintra

From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle / Gonçalves, Diana

Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands / Duindam, David

No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art / Surmann, Frauke

Notes on the Editors

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781283857048

1283857049

9783110283143

311028314X

OCLC:

822025089