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At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious.
Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.
Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.
Price: $123.00
Pages: 408
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
Publication Date:
27 August 2015
ISBN: 9789004306035
Format: Paperback
Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at CEC, University of Lisbon. She is the author of Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror, co-editor of several books and special issues in journals and author of many articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and anthologies.
Marta Pacheco Pinto (PhD, 2013) is postdoc at CEC, University of Lisbon. She has published essays in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited volumes, including Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) and Macau na escrita, escritas de Macau (2010).
Sandra Bettencourt is a doctoral student in the PhD Programme “Materialities of Literature” at the University of Coimbra. She has co-edited volumes, and published essays in several peer-reviewed journals. She is also the editorial coordinator of the peer-reviewed journal MATLIT.
Marta Pacheco Pinto (PhD, 2013) is postdoc at CEC, University of Lisbon. She has published essays in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited volumes, including Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) and Macau na escrita, escritas de Macau (2010).
Sandra Bettencourt is a doctoral student in the PhD Programme “Materialities of Literature” at the University of Coimbra. She has co-edited volumes, and published essays in several peer-reviewed journals. She is also the editorial coordinator of the peer-reviewed journal MATLIT.