{"product_id":"loss-the-politics-of-mourning-paperback","title":"Loss: The Politics of Mourning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Eng\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Kazanjian\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong 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, \u003ci\u003eLoss \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would 'make sense' of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition by which life is risked, by which the question of whether one can move, and with whom, and in what way is framed and incited by the irreversibility of loss itself.--Judith Butler, from the \u003ci\u003eAfterword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLoss\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful volume: powerful and important, deeply moving and intellectually challenging at the same time, ethical and not moralistic. It is one of those rare collections that work as a multifaceted whole to map new areas for inquiry and pose new questions. I found myself educated and provoked by the experience of participating in an ongoing dialogue.\"--Amy Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid L. Eng\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eRacial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), as well as coeditor with Alice Y. Hom of \u003ci\u003eQ \u0026amp; A: Queer in Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and a Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. His current book project, \u003ci\u003eQueer Diasporas\/Psychic Diasporas, \u003c\/i\u003e explores the impact of transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth century. \u003cb\u003eDavid Kazanjian\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is author of \u003ci\u003eArticulating \"America\" Imperial Citizenship Before the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 498\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.24 x 8.96 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133470773383,"sku":"9780520232365","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d91398ac07bd9ce87003c11a3f319110.webp?v=1732634588","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/loss-the-politics-of-mourning-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}