Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory and the Politics of Trauma

by Adrian Parr

Deleuze and Memorial Culture is a detailed study of contemporary forms of public remembrance. Adrian Parr considers the different character traumatic memory takes throughout the sphere of cultural production and argues that contemporary memorial culture has the power to put traumatic memory to work in a positive way. Drawing on the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze, she outlines the relevance of his thought to cultural studies and the wider phenomenon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748627545
• ISBN13: 9780748627547
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher