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The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises (Hardcover)
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The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises (Hardcover)
Series: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)
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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of
order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and
subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal
level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social
level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious
situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental
states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in
contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious
physical, economical and psychological consequences our
understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural
imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we
encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms,
historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of
imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with
catastrophes and crises.This book presents a series of articles
investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises
in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's
eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes,
to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes
of Cormac McCarthy.
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