Loss
The Politics of Mourning
1st Edition
Published on 10. December 2002
498 pages
978-0-520-93627-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Content
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Mourning Remains
David L. Eng and David Kazanjian
I. Bodily Remains
Returning the Body without Haunting: Mourning "Nai Phi" and the End of Revolution in Thailand
Rosalind C. Morris
Black Mo'nin'
Fred Moten
Ambiguities of Mourning: Law, Custom, and Testimony of Women before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Mark Sanders
Catastrophic Mourning
Marc Nichanian
Between Genocide and Catastrophe
David Kazanjian and Marc Nichanian
Passing Shadows: Melancholic Nationality and Black Critical Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood
Dana Luciano
Melancholia and Moralism
Douglas Crimp
II. Spatial Remains
The Memory of Hunger
David Lloyd
Remains to Be Seen: Reading the Works of Dean Sameshima and Khanh Vo
Susette Min
Mourning Becomes Kitsch: The Aesthetics of Loss in Severo Sarduy's Cobra
Vilashini Cooppan
Theorizing the Loss of Land: Griqua Land Claims in Southern Africa, 1874-1998
David Johnson
Left Melancholy
Charity Scribner
III. Ideal Remains
All Things Shining
Kaja Silverman
A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
David L. Eng and Shinhee Han
Passing Away: The Unspeakable (Losses) of Postapartheid South Africa
Yvette Christiansë
Ways of Not Seeing: (En)gendered Optics in Benjamin, Baudelaire, and Freud
Alys Eve Weinbaum
Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: ACT UP's Lesbians
Ann Cvetkovich
Resisting Left Melancholia
Wendy Brown
Afterword: After Loss, What Then?
Judith Butler
Contributors
Index
Preface
Introduction: Mourning Remains
David L. Eng and David Kazanjian
I. Bodily Remains
Returning the Body without Haunting: Mourning "Nai Phi" and the End of Revolution in Thailand
Rosalind C. Morris
Black Mo'nin'
Fred Moten
Ambiguities of Mourning: Law, Custom, and Testimony of Women before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Mark Sanders
Catastrophic Mourning
Marc Nichanian
Between Genocide and Catastrophe
David Kazanjian and Marc Nichanian
Passing Shadows: Melancholic Nationality and Black Critical Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood
Dana Luciano
Melancholia and Moralism
Douglas Crimp
II. Spatial Remains
The Memory of Hunger
David Lloyd
Remains to Be Seen: Reading the Works of Dean Sameshima and Khanh Vo
Susette Min
Mourning Becomes Kitsch: The Aesthetics of Loss in Severo Sarduy's Cobra
Vilashini Cooppan
Theorizing the Loss of Land: Griqua Land Claims in Southern Africa, 1874-1998
David Johnson
Left Melancholy
Charity Scribner
III. Ideal Remains
All Things Shining
Kaja Silverman
A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
David L. Eng and Shinhee Han
Passing Away: The Unspeakable (Losses) of Postapartheid South Africa
Yvette Christiansë
Ways of Not Seeing: (En)gendered Optics in Benjamin, Baudelaire, and Freud
Alys Eve Weinbaum
Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: ACT UP's Lesbians
Ann Cvetkovich
Resisting Left Melancholia
Wendy Brown
Afterword: After Loss, What Then?
Judith Butler
Contributors
Index
