Statistical Panic - Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Woodward Klappentext Explores the cultural politics of emotions in American culture since the 1960s. Zusammenfassung Reflections on how Americans are constrained by cultural scripts for age-! race-! and gender-proper emotional behavior and how our increasingly media-saturated culture impoverishes our interior lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Thinking Feeling, Feeling Thinking 1 Part One: Cultural Politics, Communities of Feeling 29 1. Containing Anger, Advocating Anger: Freud and Feminism 35 2. Against Wisdom: Anger and Aging 58 3. Racial Shame, Mass-Mediated Shame, Mutual Shame 79 4. Liberal Compassion, Compassionate Conservatism 109 Part Two: Structures of Feeling, "New" Feelings 135 5. Sympathy for Nonhuman Cyborgs 139 6. Bureaucratic Rage 165 7. Statistical Panic 195 Coda: Inexhaustible Grief 219 Notes 235 Bibliography 275 Index 297

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Woodward, Woodward, Kathleen Woodward, Kathleen M. Woodward
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2009
• EAN: 9780822343547
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4354-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Psychologie: Emotionen, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Psychology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist