Panic and Mourning - The Cultural Work of Trauma

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Literary negotations

A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation

Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives

Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996)

Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock

Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams

II. Visual resonances

Odysseus, Rowing

(Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze

The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian

Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art

Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China

III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances

Affective Spaces

Catastrophes in Sight and Sound

From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle

Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands

No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art

Notes on the Editors

Notes on Contributors