{"product_id":"loss-9780520232365","title":"Loss","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this book considers 'what is lost' in terms of 'what remains'. It reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations Preface Introduction: Mourning Remains David L. Eng and David Kazanjian  I. Bodily Remains Returning the Body without Haunting: Mourning \"Nai Phi\" and the End of Revolution in Thailand Rosalind C. Morris  Black Mo'nin' Fred Moten  Ambiguities of Mourning: Law, Custom, and Testimony of Women before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Mark Sanders  Catastrophic Mourning Marc Nichanian  Between Genocide and Catastrophe David Kazanjian and Marc Nichanian  Passing Shadows: Melancholic Nationality and Black Critical Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood Dana Luciano  Melancholia and Moralism Douglas Crimp  II. Spatial Remains The Memory of Hunger David Lloyd  Remains to Be Seen: Reading the Works of Dean Sameshima and Khanh Vo Susette Min  Mourning Becomes Kitsch: The Aesthetics of Loss in Severo Sarduy's Cobra Vilashini Cooppan  Theorizing the Loss of Land: Griqua Land Claims in Southern Africa, 1874--1998 David Johnson  Left Melancholy Charity Scribner  III. Ideal Remains All Things Shining Kaja Silverman  A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia David L. Eng and Shinhee Han  Passing Away: The Unspeakable (Losses) of Postapartheid South Africa Yvette Christianse  Ways of Not Seeing: (En)gendered Optics in Benjamin, Baudelaire, and Freud Alys Eve Weinbaum  Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: ACT UP's Lesbians Ann Cvetkovich  Resisting Left Melancholia Wendy Brown  Afterword: After Loss, What Then? Judith Butler Contributors Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402816233815,"sku":"9780520232365","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520232365.jpg?v=1730481589","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/loss-9780520232365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}