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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779319503321

Titolo

Panic and mourning [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural work of trauma / / edited by Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Catia Ferreira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85704-9

3-11-028314-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Culture & conflict ; ; 1

Classificazione

LB 60000

Altri autori (Persone)

AgostinhoDaniela

AntzElisa

FerreiraCátia

Disciplina

302.17

616.85/21

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Psychic trauma in literature

Crisis in literature

Mourning customs in literature

Loss (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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