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Performing Hysteria : Contemporary Images and Imaginations of Hysteria by Johanna Braun; Elaine Showalter; Dominik Zechner; Tim Posada; Sean Metzger; Jonathan W. Marshall; Elke Krasny; Sander L. Gilman; Cecily Devereux; Vivian Delchamps is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary images and representations of hysteria We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of "hysterical" discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent deployments of hysteria in popular discourse--particularly as they emerge in times of material and hermeneutic crisis--Performing Hysteria re-engages the notion of "hysteria". Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th- and early 21st-century (primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this volume contribute to the multilayered and complex discussions that surround and foster this resurgent interest in hysteria--covering such areas as art, literature, theatre, film, television, dance; crossing such disciplines as cultural studies, political science, philosophy, history, media, disability, race and ethnicity, and gender studies; and analysing stereotypical images and representations of the hysteric in relation to cultural sciences and med
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- Author
- Johanna Braun; Elaine Showalter; Dominik Zechner; Tim Posada; Sean Metzger; Jonathan W. Marshall; Elke Krasny; Sander L. Gilman; Cecily Devereux; Vivian Delchamps
- Publisher
- Leuven University Press,
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789461663139
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Biography, Memoir
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