Fear and fantasy in a global world / volume editor, Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, Sandra Bettencourt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fear and Fantasyin a Global World; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties; The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization; Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson's The Pets; "Territories of Risk" within "Tropological Space": From Zero to 2666, and Back; Mexico's Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship; Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation; The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats.

Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary FictionFearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010); Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s; Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter; Part 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and Fantasy.

A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and KunderaMemory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine's Minor Angels; The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence; The Digital Meta-Dissemination of Fear in Music Videos. A Transdisciplinary Textual Analysis of Two Case Studies: Esben and the Witch's Marching Song and M.I.A.'s Born Free; Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other; Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey.

The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De QuinceyHabitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero; War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante's View of the "Infidel"; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Fear and Fantasy in a Global World is a collection of essays which examines the processes, meanings and relations between fear and fantasy in the globalized world, from bold interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.

English.

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