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Mourning Sex - Performing Public Memories (Hardcover, New)
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Mourning Sex - Performing Public Memories (Hardcover, New)
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"Mourning Sex" employs an impressive range of cultural
representations to examine how cultures perform their mourning. The
texts examined range from a recent film made by a man dying of
AIDS, to the remains of the Rose theatre. Other chapters explore
the performance of grief through: the paintings of Caravaggio and
Holbein; the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas hearings; and Freud's
patient Anna O.
In "Mourning Sex," Phelan meditates upon the trauma of loss,
erotically and performatively, in an extraordinary fusion of
critical and creative writing which erodes the distinction between
art and theory, fact and fiction.
This work by the author of the highly-accalimed "Unmarked" makes a
stunning advance in performance theory in dialogue with
psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies. relation to
texts and events ranging from the paintings of Caravaggio and
Holbein, to Massi and Friedman's film "Silverlake Life" to the
Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas hearing Peggy Phelan meditates upon
the performance and erotics of the trauma of loss. Experimental and
theoretically informed Mourning Sex advances performance theory in
dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.
"Mourning Sex" examines how cultures perform their mourning.
Employing a wide range of cultural representations--from
Caravaggio's 1601 painting, "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" to Tom
Joslin's, Mark Massi's and Peter Friedman's 1992 film "Silver Lake
Life: The View From Here," "Mourning Sex" meditates on the trauma
of loss, erotically, and performatively. Experimental and
theoretically informed, "Mourning Sex" advances performance theory
in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and culturalstudies.
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