Warped Mourning - Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

Zusatztext "In Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied , Alexander Etkind shows why mourning is more conducive to cultural analysis. Where trauma is unsymbolized and melancholia is contained within the self, mourning is often an address to the other . . . Etkind peruses a broad array of writings and artifacts, offering interpretations inflected by insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory." Informationen zum Autor Alexander Etkind is Professor of Russian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow at King's College. His most recent book is Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011). Klappentext Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices ¿ this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s. Zusammenfassung Haunted by its unburied past, late Soviet and post-Soviet culture has produced unique mourning and memorial practices - this book details these practices and provides new interpretations of the cultural artifacts produced in Russia from the 1930s through the 2010s.

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandr Cetkind, Alexander Etkind
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9780804773935
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7393-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies