The macabresque : human violation and hate in genocide, mass atrocity and enemy-making / Edward Weisband.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisband, Edward, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Political atrocities.

Massacres.

Physical Description:

xii, 462 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Part I The Macabresque of Human Violation

Introduction: Taking Performativity Seriously 3

1 From Collective Violence to Human Violation: Dark Desires in Disorders of Will 7

Part II On the "Normality" of Perpetrators: How We Know Them, How They Know Themselves

2 Perpetrators Alone and Together: Analytical Perspectives, Methodological Critiques 63

3 One Mind, Heart, and Spirit: Reductionist Traps in Psychosocial Theory 99

4 The Modalities of Desire in Mimetic Rivalry: Sin, Sign, and Symbol 109

5 Human Development and the Political Subject: The Lacanian Scaffolding in Psychosocial Perspectives 131

6 Perversity in the Performative: Sadism and Shame in the Macabresque 173

Part III Cultural Contexts: Case Studies of Performativity in the Macabresque

7 The Lurid and Ludic in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Oral Disciplines and Oedipal Aggression in Mao's Re-education Camps 219

8 Cultural Case Studies in the Macabresque: Variations of Human Violation in the Twentieth Century 253

The Desert March of Young Turk Predatory Horror 259

Stalin's Ideological Purgatory 263

Hitler's Diabolical Laboratory 277

The Hell of Blood Trauma in the Days of Hutu Power 291

The Confessional Archive and the Facial Aesthetics of Ângkar's Torture 299

The Junta's Neo-Inquisitional Operating Theaters 320

The Bosnian Shame Camps 326

Part IV Politics of the Unreal

9 On the Slippery Tropes of We-ness: Reality and the Unreal in Social Fantasy and Political Ideology 355

10 The Quest for the Never-Is: Legitimacy-Grounding as Enemy-Making 382.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190677886

0190677880

OCLC:

983824583