Crochet Sweater Book by Sylvia Cosh
Taking 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.Among 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, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780517564783 |
| ISBN 10 | 0517564785 |
| Title | Crochet Sweater Book |
| Author | Sylvia Cosh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House Value Publishing |
| Year published | 1987-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 127 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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