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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.17; 616.85/21
• Soggetto topico: Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Psychic trauma in literature; Crisis in literature; Mourning customs in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: Culture; Mourning; Panic; Trauma
• Classificazione: LB 60000
• Altri autori: AgostinhoDaniela AntzElisa FerreiraCátia
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Panic and mourning
• ISBN: 1-283-85704-9; 3-11-028314-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779319503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture & Conflict