Overview

At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious. Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.

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Author:   Susana Araújo ,  Marta Pinto ,  Sandra Bettencourt
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   81
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.645kg
ISBN:  

9789004306035

ISBN 10:   900430603
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   27 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra Bettencourt Introduction Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties Christopher Bollas The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization James Rushing Daniel Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets David Vichnar “Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and Back Edith Beltrán Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation Martijn Boven The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats Christin Grunert Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction Gero Guttzeit Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) Marija Sruk Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s Alexandra Hills Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter Part 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and Fantasy Harriet Hulme A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera Ana Filipa Prata Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels Hande Gurses The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence João Pedro da Costa The Digital Meta-Dissemination of Fear in Music Videos. A Transdisciplinary Textual Analysis of Two Case Studies: Esben and the Witch’s Marching Song and M.I.A.’s Born Free Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other Ortwin de Graef Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey Brecht de Groote The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey Margarita García Candeira Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero Daniela Di Pasquale War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel” Notes on Contributors Index

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Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at CEC, University of Lisbon. She is the author of Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror, co-editor of several books and special issues in journals and author of many articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and anthologies. Marta Pacheco Pinto (PhD, 2013) is postdoc at CEC, University of Lisbon. She has published essays in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited volumes, including Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) and Macau na escrita, escritas de Macau (2010). Sandra Bettencourt is a doctoral student in the PhD Programme “Materialities of Literature” at the University of Coimbra. She has co-edited volumes, and published essays in several peer-reviewed journals. She is also the editorial coordinator of the peer-reviewed journal MATLIT.

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