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Loss : The Politics of Mourning by David L. Eng (editor), David Kazanjian (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Loss : The Politics of Mourning about?

<p>Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors—political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists—expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy.<br> Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements.<br> In particular, <i>Loss</i> reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.</p>

Who reads Loss : The Politics of Mourning?

Author

David L. Eng (editor), David Kazanjian (editor)

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520232358

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Sociology

Rating

4.34 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14