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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra Bettencourt
Introduction
Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties
Christopher Bollas
The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization
James Rushing Daniel
Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson's The Pets
David Vichnar
"Territories of Risk" within "Tropological Space": From Zero to 2666, and Back
Edith Beltrán
Mexico's Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship
Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation
Martijn Boven
The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats
Christin Grunert
Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction
Gero Guttzeit
Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010)
Marija Sruk
Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s
Alexandra Hills
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
Harriet Hulme
A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera
Ana Filipa Prata
Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine's Minor Angels
Hande Gurses
The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
João Pedro da Costa
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
Ortwin de Graef
Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey
Brecht de Groote
The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey
Margarita García Candeira
Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero
Daniela Di Pasquale
War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante's View of the "Infidel"
Notes on Contributors
Index
