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.
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. In particular,
"Loss "reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to
notions of activism, ethics, and identity.
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