UID:
almafu_9959227871202883
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-85704-9
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3-11-028314-X
Series Statement:
Culture & conflict ; 1
Content:
'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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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I. Literary negotiations --
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A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation /
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Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives /
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Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) /
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Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock /
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Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams /
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II. Visual resonances --
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Odysseus, Rowing /
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(Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze /
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The Banality of Trauma: Globalisation, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian /
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Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art /
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"Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought": Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China /
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III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances --
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Affective Spaces /
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Catastrophes in Sight and Sound /
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From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle /
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Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands /
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No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art /
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Notes on the Editors --
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Notes on Contributors
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-028309-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-028315-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1515/9783110283143
