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Loss [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of mourning / / edited by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian ; with an afterword by Judith Butler



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Titolo: Loss [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of mourning / / edited by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian ; with an afterword by Judith Butler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (500 p.)
Disciplina: 306/.09/04
Soggetto topico: Social history - 20th century
Loss (Psychology) - Social aspects
Psychic trauma - Social aspects
Melancholy - Social aspects
Melancholy in literature
Soggetto non controllato: aids
anthology
apartheid
culture of grief
diaspora
disease
ethics
feminists
film critics
genocide
grief
history
human condition
identity
irish famine
life lessons
literary critics
memory
migration
mourning
nonfiction essays
ottoman slaughter
overcoming loss
personal journey
political activists
political issues
political theorists
psychology of loss
realistic
slavery
social politics
suicide
tragic
vietnam war
warfare
witness
Altri autori: EngDavid L. <1967->  
KazanjianDavid <1967->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Returning the Body without Haunting -- Black Mo'nin' -- Ambiguities of Mourning -- Catastrophic Mourning -- Between Genocide and Catastrophe -- Passing Shadows -- Melancholia and Moralism -- II. Spatial Remains -- The Memory of Hunger -- Remains to Be Seen -- Mourning Becomes Kitsch -- Theorizing the Loss of Land -- Left Melancholy -- All Things Shining -- A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia -- Passing Away -- Ways of Not Seeing -- Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism -- Resisting Left Melancholia -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Name Index
Sommario/riassunto: Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss-of warfare, disease, and political strife-this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists--expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy. Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements. In particular, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.
Titolo autorizzato: Loss  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59734-722-1
9786613277121
0-520-93627-2
1-283-27712-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783039703321
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