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Deleuze and Memorial Culture : Desire, Singular Memory and the Politics of Trauma / Adrian Parr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748627547
  • 9780748631582
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Desire is Social -- CHAPTER 2 Utopian Memory -- CHAPTER 3 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- CHAPTER 4 9/11 News Coverage -- CHAPTER 5 US Military Abuses at Abu Ghraib -- CHAPTER 6 The Amish Shootings -- CHAPTER 7 Ground Zero -- CHAPTER 8 Berlin and the Holocaust -- CHAPTER 9 Trauma and Consumption -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, she outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public remembrance.This book offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.Key FeaturesDifficult Deleuzian concepts are explained and defined and applied to studies in culture, media and communicationsOffers a detailed study of the sociology and politics of collective remembranceCase studies include the holocaust, 9/11 and the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Desire is Social -- CHAPTER 2 Utopian Memory -- CHAPTER 3 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- CHAPTER 4 9/11 News Coverage -- CHAPTER 5 US Military Abuses at Abu Ghraib -- CHAPTER 6 The Amish Shootings -- CHAPTER 7 Ground Zero -- CHAPTER 8 Berlin and the Holocaust -- CHAPTER 9 Trauma and Consumption -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, she outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon of traumatic theory and public remembrance.This book offers a revision of trauma theory that presents trauma not simply as a definitive experience and implicitly negative, but an experience that can foster a sense of hope and optimism for the future.Key FeaturesDifficult Deleuzian concepts are explained and defined and applied to studies in culture, media and communicationsOffers a detailed study of the sociology and politics of collective remembranceCase studies include the holocaust, 9/11 and the documentation and dissemination of US military abuses at Abu Ghraib prison

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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