Panic and Mourning The Cultural Work of Trauma CC 1 (Culture & Conflict)

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

Culture and conflict inevitably go hand in hand. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and by the creative, fraught interaction between conflicting concepts and values. The same can be said of all key ideas in the study of culture, such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and globalization, dislocation and emplacement, mediation and exclusion. This series publishes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual, and film studies. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue on the multiple ways in which conflict supports and constrains the production of meaning, on how conflict is represented, how it relates to the past and projects the present, and how it frames scholarship within the humanities.

Editors:
Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Editorial Board:
Arjun Appadurai, New York University,
Claudia Benthien, Universität Hamburg,
Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich,
Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University,
Ansgar Nünning, Universität Gießen,
Naomi Segal, University of London, Birkbeck College,
Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
António Sousa Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra,
Roberto Vecchi, Universita di Bologna,
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University,
Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania,
Christoph Wulf, FU Berlin,
Longxi Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Culture and conflict unavoidably go together. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and creative, i.e. conflictual, interaction that inevitably support the key themes of the study of culture such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and globalization, dislocation and emplacement, mediation and exclusion. This series publishes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual and film studies, fostering a plural disciplinary dialogue on the multiple ways in which conflict supports and constrains the production of meaning in modernity, how the representation of conflict works, how it relates to the past and projects the present and how it frames scholarship within the humanities.Isabel Capeloa Gil , Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; Paulo de Medeiros , University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Nesci , University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Editorial Arjun Appadurai, New York University,Claudia Benthien, Universitt Hamburg,Elisabeth Bronfen, Universitt Zrich,Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara,Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam,Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University,Ansgar Nnning, Universitt Gieen,Naomi Segal, University of London, Birkbeck College,Mrcio Seligmann-Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas,Antnio Sousa Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra,Roberto Vecchi, Universita di Bologna,Samuel Weber, Northwestern University,Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania,Christoph Wulf, FU Berlin,Longxi Zhang, City University of Hong Kong 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.--p. [4] Of Cover. Machine Generated Contents Note: I.literary Negotations -- A Culture Of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, And The Question Of Representation / Antonio Sousa Ribeiro -- Mourning, Melancholia And Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-jewish Narratives / Luisa Banki -- Nostalgias And Mourning: The Nation In The Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) / Milan Miljkovic -- Negotiating Loss And Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics And Narrative Agency In Fae Myenne Ng's Bone And Steer Toward Rock / Anna Pehkoranta -- Melancholic Violence And The Spectre Of Failed Ideals In Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle Of Algiers And Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams / Lucy Brisley -- Ii.visual Resonances -- Odysseus, Rowing / Liliane Weissberg. Edited By Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Cátia Ferreira. Includes Bibliographical References. Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 10 I. Literary negotations 34 A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation 36 Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives 46 Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) 58 Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock 78 Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams 94 II. Visual resonances 110 Odysseus, Rowing 112 (Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and Liberation through the Soviet Gaze 130 The Banality of Trauma: Globalization, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian 154 Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art 170 Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought: Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China 190 III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances 202 Affective Spaces 204 Catastrophes in Sight and Sound 220 From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle 242 Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands 256 No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art 272 Notes on the Editors 288 Notes on Contributors 290 '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. Daniela Agostinho and Cátia Ferreira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal; Elisa Antz, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany Panic and mourning are two distinct emotional constructs that often intersect and interplay in landscapes of conflict, violence, crisis, tragedy and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to occur during the experience of the catastrophic events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a violent disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can also leave a thread of panic in its aftermath, such as mourning can be disturbed or reinstated by a catastrophic occurrence. This inter-disciplinary collection seeks to address questions at the interface of panic and mourning, both individually and jointly. It is particularly interested in investigating representations and performances of modalities and contexts of panic (fear, horror, terror, rage, anxiety, shock, threat) and mourning (pain, grief, loss, trauma, memory, melancholy, nostalgia, healing) in media, literary and cultural frameworks. "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."--Page 4 of cover