Mourning Diana : nation, culture, and the performance of grief / / edited by Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.085/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Mourning customs - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Monarchy - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Mourning customs - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: KearAdrian <1970-> SteinbergDeborah Lynn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Mourning Diana and the scholarly ethic ADRIAN KEAR AND DEBORAH LYNN STEINBERG; Ghost writing ADRIAN KEAR AND DEBORAH LYNN STEINBERG; Exemplary differences: mourning (and not mourning) a princess RICHARD JOHNSON; Our lady of flowers: the ambiguous politics of Diana's floral revolution SUSANNE GREENHALGH; Be(long)ing: New Labour, New Britain and the 'Dianaization' of politics VALERIE HEY; Rhetoric, nation and the people's property JOE KELLEHER ; The crowd in the age of Diana: ordinary inventiveness and the popular imagination VALERIE WALKERDINEDiana and race: romance and the reconfiguration of the nation MICA NAVA; Mourning Diana, Asian style JATINDER VERMA; Celebrity and the politics of charity: memories of a missionary departed ARVIND RAJAGOPAL; Mourning at a distance: Australians and the death of a British princess JEAN DURUZ AND CAROL JOHNSON; I'd rather be the princess than the queen! Mourning Diana as a gay icon WILLIAM J.SPURLIN; Diana between two deaths: spectral ethics and the timeof mourning ADRIAN KEAR ; Downloading grief: minority populations mourn Diana DIANA TAYLORNotes on contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess's public image and the tensions surrounding the popular conception of royalty. Mourning Diana examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, from the immediate aftermath as crowds gathered in public s
• Titolo autorizzato: Mourning Diana
• ISBN: 1-134-65040-X; 1-280-33371-5; 0-203-26043-0; 0-203-01157-0; 1-134-65041-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202237103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno