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Author: Sharon Sliwinski
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781517900434
ISBN 10: 1517900433
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 28 March 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Addressing the political by the unusual means of the textual analysis of dreams, <i>Dreaming in Dark Times</i> is an innovative and productive entanglement of literary and historical-political analysis that enables us to approach the currently important question of political subjectivity, a seeming oxymoron. Not a psychoanalysis of the dreamer, the book offers a subtle deployment of the insights of psychoanalysis and dream theory for our current and worsening crises. A vitally important book. --Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds</p> Sharon Sliwinski's dreamers are damaged, brave people--poets, patients, soldiers, resisters, rape survivors--many accused of cowardice. Their dreams not only symptomatize the terrible violence of colonization, fascism, torture, or war; they also express 'the human being's radical freedom to assign meaning to experience.' This mind-blowing, humane, and timely book is quite simply a must-read. --Bonnie Honig, Brown University*</p>
"""Addressing the political by the unusual means of the textual analysis of dreams, Dreaming in Dark Times is an innovative and productive entanglement of literary and historical-political analysis that enables us to approach the currently important question of political subjectivity, a seeming oxymoron. Not a psychoanalysis of the dreamer, the book offers a subtle deployment of the insights of psychoanalysis and dream theory for our current and worsening crises. A vitally important book.""—Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds ""Sharon Sliwinski’s dreamers are damaged, brave people—poets, patients, soldiers, resisters, rape survivors—many accused of cowardice. Their dreams not only symptomatize the terrible violence of colonization, fascism, torture, or war; they also express ‘the human being’s radical freedom to assign meaning to experience.’ This mind-blowing, humane, and timely book is quite simply a must-read.""—Bonnie Honig, Brown University*"
Addressing the political by the unusual means of the textual analysis of dreams, Dreaming in Dark Times is an innovative and productive entanglement of literary and historical-political analysis that enables us to approach the currently important question of political subjectivity, a seeming oxymoron. Not a psychoanalysis of the dreamer, the book offers a subtle deployment of the insights of psychoanalysis and dream theory for our current and worsening crises. A vitally important book. -Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds Sharon Sliwinski's dreamers are damaged, brave people-poets, patients, soldiers, resisters, rape survivors-many accused of cowardice. Their dreams not only symptomatize the terrible violence of colonization, fascism, torture, or war; they also express 'the human being's radical freedom to assign meaning to experience.' This mind-blowing, humane, and timely book is quite simply a must-read. -Bonnie Honig, Brown University*
Author Information
Sharon Sliwinski is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and a core member of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She is the author of Human Rights In Camera.
