The Politics of Mourning
Title | The Politics of Mourning PDF eBook |
Author | Micki McElya |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674974069 |
Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.
Loss
Title | Loss PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Eng |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 499 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520232356 |
"If catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would ‘make sense’ of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition by which life is risked, by which the question of whether one can move, and with whom, and in what way is framed and incited by the irreversibility of loss itself."—Judith Butler, from the Afterword "Loss is a wonderful volume: powerful and important, deeply moving and intellectually challenging at the same time, ethical and not moralistic. It is one of those rare collections that work as a multifaceted whole to map new areas for inquiry and pose new questions. I found myself educated and provoked by the experience of participating in an ongoing dialogue."—Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
Mourning in America
Title | Mourning in America PDF eBook |
Author | David W. McIvor |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501706721 |
Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities.In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. McIvor also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004–2006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979—a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
Mourning Happiness
Title | Mourning Happiness PDF eBook |
Author | Vivasvan Soni |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 560 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Enlightenment |
ISBN | 9780801448171 |
"A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"--Adam Potkay
Loss
Title | Loss PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Eng |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 500 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780520232358 |
"If catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would ‘make sense’ of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition by which life is risked, by which the question of whether one can move, and with whom, and in what way is framed and incited by the irreversibility of loss itself."—Judith Butler, from the Afterword "Loss is a wonderful volume: powerful and important, deeply moving and intellectually challenging at the same time, ethical and not moralistic. It is one of those rare collections that work as a multifaceted whole to map new areas for inquiry and pose new questions. I found myself educated and provoked by the experience of participating in an ongoing dialogue."—Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
Melancholy Politics
Title | Melancholy Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Philippe Mathy |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271037830 |
"A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism"--Provided by publisher.
Precarious Life
Title | Precarious Life PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Butler |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1839763035 |
In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.