{"product_id":"mourning-diana-9780415193924","title":"Mourning Diana","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international ''community of mourning'', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess''s public image and the tensions surrounding the popular conception of royalty. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMourning Diana\u003c\/em\u003e examines the events which followed the death of Diana as a series of cultural-political phenomena, from the immediate aftermath as crowds gathered in public spaces and royal palaces, to the state funeral in Westminister Abbey, examining the performance of grief and the involvement of the global media in the creation of narratives and spectacles relating to the commemoration of her life.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors investigate the complex iconic status of Diana, as a public figure able to sustain a host of alternative identifications, and trace the posthumous r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMourning Diana\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e deserves a place in any collection of background reading on the unfortunate event it commemorates.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eRoyalty Digest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Mourning Diana and the Scholarly Ethic,  Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg  Ghost Writing, Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg  Exemplary Differences: Mourning (and not mourning) a Princess,  Richard Johnson Our Lady of Flowers: The ambiguous politics of Diana's Floral Revolution, Susan Greenhalgh  Be(long)ing: New Labour, New Britain and the Dianaisation of Politics, Valerie Hey  'That which is taken from me is not mine':Rhetoric, Nation and the People's Property, Joe Kelleher The Crowd in the Age of Diana: Ordinary Inventiveness and the Popular Imagination,  Valerie Walkerdine Diana and Race: Romance and the Reconfiguration of the Nation, Mica Nava Mourning Diana,  Jatinder Verma  Celebrity and the Politics of Charity: Memories of a Missionary Departed, Arvind Rajagopal Mourning at a Distance: Australians and the Death of a British Princess  Jean Duruz and Carol Johnson  I'd Rather be the Princess than the Queen! Mourning Diana as Gay Icon,  William J.Spurlin Diana Between Two Deaths: Spectral Ethics and the Time of Mourning, Adrian Kear Downloading Grief: Minority Populations Mourn Diana,  Diana Taylor","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402075185495,"sku":"9780415193924","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415193924.jpg?v=1730479345","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mourning-diana-9780415193924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}