Panic and Mourning
The Cultural Work of Trauma
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2012
VIII, 285 pages
978-3-11-028314-3 (ISBN)
Description
'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.
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Daniela Agostinho and Cátia Ferreira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal; Elisa Antz, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.
Content
1 - Acknowledgements [Seite 5]
2 - Introduction [Seite 9]
3 - I. Literary negotations [Seite 33]
3.1 - A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation [Seite 35]
3.2 - Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives [Seite 45]
3.3 - Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) [Seite 57]
3.4 - Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock [Seite 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 [Seite 93]
4 - II. Visual resonances [Seite 109]
4.1 - Odysseus, Rowing [Seite 111]
4.2 - (Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze [Seite 129]
4.3 - The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian [Seite 153]
4.4 - Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art [Seite 169]
4.5 - Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China [Seite 189]
5 - III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances [Seite 201]
5.1 - Affective Spaces [Seite 203]
5.2 - Catastrophes in Sight and Sound [Seite 219]
5.3 - From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle [Seite 241]
5.4 - Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands [Seite 255]
5.5 - No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art [Seite 271]
6 - Notes on the Editors [Seite 287]
7 - Notes on Contributors [Seite 289]
2 - Introduction [Seite 9]
3 - I. Literary negotations [Seite 33]
3.1 - A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation [Seite 35]
3.2 - Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives [Seite 45]
3.3 - Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) [Seite 57]
3.4 - Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock [Seite 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 [Seite 93]
4 - II. Visual resonances [Seite 109]
4.1 - Odysseus, Rowing [Seite 111]
4.2 - (Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze [Seite 129]
4.3 - The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian [Seite 153]
4.4 - Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art [Seite 169]
4.5 - Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China [Seite 189]
5 - III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances [Seite 201]
5.1 - Affective Spaces [Seite 203]
5.2 - Catastrophes in Sight and Sound [Seite 219]
5.3 - From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle [Seite 241]
5.4 - Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands [Seite 255]
5.5 - No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art [Seite 271]
6 - Notes on the Editors [Seite 287]
7 - Notes on Contributors [Seite 289]
