Agostinho / Antz / Ferreira Panic and Mourning

The Cultural Work of Trauma
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028314-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 293 Seiten

Reihe: Culture & Conflict

‘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-disciplinary outlook, this volume wishes to address questions at the interface of panic and mourning and their impact on practices in literature, media, and the arts. Since violent events take place within cultures that will draw from their traditions, memories and systems of beliefs in order to process them, the authors of this book aim precisely at discussing the effects of calamity upon the cultural structure and the way literary, artistic and media practices not only reproduce individual and collective anxieties but also generate knowledge and reshape the cultural formation within which they emerge.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Libraries, Departments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agostinho, Daniela

Antz, Elisa

Ferreira, Cátia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnopsychologie, Kulturpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;5
2;Introduction;9
3;I. Literary negotations;33
3.1;A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation;35
3.2;Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives;45
3.3;Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996);57
3.4;Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock;77
3.5;Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams;93
4;II. Visual resonances;109
4.1;Odysseus, Rowing;111
4.2;(Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze;129
4.3;The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian;153
4.4;Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art;169
4.5;Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China;189
5;III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances;201
5.1;Affective Spaces;203
5.2;Catastrophes in Sight and Sound;219
5.3;From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle;241
5.4;Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands;255
5.5;No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art;271
6;Notes on the Editors;287
7;Notes on Contributors;289

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Agostinho and Cátia Ferreira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal; Elisa Antz, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.