Mourning sex : performing public memories /

Mourning sex : performing public memories / Peggy Phelan.

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Phelan employs an impressive range of cultural representations to examine how cultures perform their mourning. In relation to texts and events ranging from the paintings of Caravaggio to the Hill/Thomas hearing, she meditates on the trauma of loss.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Phelan, Peggy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma.
Loss (Psychology)
Grief.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Bereavement > Psychological aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Bereavement > Psychological aspects.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: this book's body
  • 2. Whole wounds: bodies at the vanishing point
  • 3. Immobile legs, stalled words: psychoanalysis and moving deaths
  • 4. Uncovered rectums: disinterring the Rose Theatre
  • 5. Bloody nose, loose noose: hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
  • 6. Shattered skulls: Rodney King and Holbein's The Ambassadors
  • 7. Failed live(r)s: whatever happened to her public grief? In memory of Rena Grant (1959-1992)
  • 8. Infected eyes: Dying Man With A Movie Camera, Silverlake Life: The View From Here.

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