Panic and Mourning: The Cultural Work of Trauma

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Panic and Mourning

The Cultural Work of Trauma

Edited by: Daniela Agostinho , Elisa Antz and Cátia Ferreira

Volume 1 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110283143

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About this book

‘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.

Author information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Literary negotiations
A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation António Sousa Ribeiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald’s German-Jewish Narratives Luisa Banki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992–1996) Milan Miljković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Steer Toward Rock Anna Pehkoranta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra’s Wolf Dreams Lucy Brisley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
II. Visual resonances
Odysseus, Rowing Liliane Weissberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
(Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze Daniela Agostinho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The Banality of Trauma: Globalisation, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian Ban Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art Tânia Ganito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
“Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought”: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China Elisabetta Colla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances
Affective Spaces Frederik Tygstrup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Catastrophes in Sight and Sound Eduardo Cintra Torres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle Diana Gonçalves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands David Duindam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art Frauke Surmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Notes on the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Libraries, Departments
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 285
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 29
Keywords: Panic; Mourning; Trauma; Culture

eBook

Published: October 30, 2012
ISBN: 9783110283143

Hardcover

Published: October 15, 2012
ISBN: 9783110283099