The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest
mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people
worldwide watched the funeral on television, floral tributes
flooded London's royal parks and sprung up, too, in small towns in
Texas, conspiracy theories ricocheted around the Internet,
commemorative stamps were issued in newly communist Hong Kong.
Press coverage of the death was also unprecedented in both its
scale and uniformity. Yet, in an enormous welter of schmaltz, very
little was said about the meaning of what had occurred-whether Tony
Blair's public emoting heralded a new kind of politics; what, if
anything, the anguish of so many who never knew Diana in person
revealed about modern society; how the intertwining of the ideas of
celebrity and victim, physical beauty and moral worth, affected
people's responses; what was implied for the future of the royal
family. For those perplexed by the events surrounding Diana's
death, this book provides some answers. Insisting that all aspects
of the affair are open to investigation, that nothing (and
especially not royalty) is sacred, it brings together a group of
distinguished writers whose primary interest is to analyze the
death rather than lament it. Contributors: Mark Auge, Jean
Baudrillard, Sarah Benton, Homi K. Bhabha, Mark Cousins, Alexander
Cockburn, Richard Coles, Regis Debray, Francoise Gaillard, Peter
Ghosh, Christopher Hird, Christopher Hitchens, Linda Holt, Sara
Maitland, Ross McKibbin, Mandy Merck, Tom Nairn, Glen Newey, Naomi
Segal, Dorothy Thompson, Francis Wheen, Judith Williamson, and
Elizabeth Wilson.
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