Dreaming in the fault zone : A poetics of healing / Eleni Stecopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stecopoulos, Eleni

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healing in literature.

Literature and society.

Literary criticism (specific authors, themes).

Genre:

Essays.

Cultural Criticism.

Lyrical Inquiry.

Physical Description:

409 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2024]

Summary:

In the era of the "chronic acute" long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing--its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyrical inquiry with cultural criticism, Dreaming in the Fault Zone explores art's treatment of our conditions at a time of both increased cynicism about healing and longing for it. Stecopoulos talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers; curates performances and takes part in community rituals; documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. Whether writing about the poet HD's psychoanalysis with Freud or madness and apartheid in Bessie Head's novel A Question of Power , the salve of demagogues or a global alliance of people with contested illnesses, Stecopoulos confronts the poetics and politics of affliction, empathy, memory, and survival. Weaving together esoteric scenes and everyday practice, with flashes of humor, these essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment. --Amazon.com

Contents:

1. Essay & Impasse

2. Eida Oneira

3. Daphnephoria

4. Hollow Earth

5. In the Fault Zone

6. The Outside Inside

7. On Somatics

8. The Apology

9. The New Score

10. Translation is a Therapeutic Landscape

11. Red Foxes

12. Syndrome Method

13. Enchantee

14. Six Movements

15. Jesus the Magician

16. An Interoceptive Sentence

17. Austerity Constellations

18. For Opacity

19. Winged Tablet

20. World Parodos

21. Notes

22. Selected Bibliography

23. Selected Archival Recordings

24. Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1643622374

9781643622378

OCLC:

1407212122

Publisher Number:

90100466435