ISBN:
129941396X
,
9783631636145
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (162 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Morbidity of Culture
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Melancholy in literature
;
Death in literature
;
Death in motion pictures
;
Diseases in literature
;
Diseases in motion pictures
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references
Abstract:
The essay collection focuses on morbid phenomena such as melancholy, trauma, illness and death which engage with questions of cultural vitality and cultural mortality. The figurations and representations of social pathologies not only display time in its existential drama, but furthermore show a paradox inherent to processes of decay: in passing lies a certain accumulation of life. Thus the morbid indicates the presence of the living, although it intentionally prefigures death. The collection points to the complex interconnections of social, medical and cultural discourses and assumes the seem
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; STEPHANIE SIEWERTReflections on the Culture(s) of Morbidity and/or the Morbidity of Culture; TRANSNATIONAL MELANCHOLY; RÜDIGER KUNOW"People between two countries always feel sorrow": Some Preliminary Reflections on Transnational Affects; ANTONIA MEHNERT"Ou libéré?"-Transnational Trauma in Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat; NARRATIVES OF ILLNESS - ILLNESS NARRATIVES; JOHN CARLOS ROWEDisease, Culture, and Transnationalism in the Americas; MARC PRIEWEMaking Sense of Morbidity in Early American Autobiography
Description / Table of Contents:
ARIANE SCHRÖDER'Descent into Hell': The Cultural and Biomedical Signification of Depression in William Styron's Darkness VisibleAESTHETICS OF DEATH; SANDRA POPPEThe Aesthetics of Death and Mourning in American Literature and Film; FREDERIKE OFFIZIERDeath of the Other: Dying, Alterity, and Appropriation; STEPHANIE SIEWERT"As for France, the Nation has Disposed of You": The Penal Colony as Morbid Space and Discourse of Life; Notes on Contributors
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