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Exploring diverse cultural representations, this book delves into the performance of mourning across various mediums. It analyzes a range of texts, including a poignant film by an AIDS patient and the remnants of the Rose theatre. Additionally, it examines grief through the lens of Caravaggio and Holbein's paintings, the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas hearings, and Freud's patient Anna O, highlighting the intricate ways cultures express and process loss.
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Mourning Sex, Peggy Phelan
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Mourning Sex
- Subtitle
- Performing Public Memories
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peggy Phelan
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Publisher
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN13
- 9780415147590
- Category
- Art / Culture, Theatre / Drama
- Description
- Exploring diverse cultural representations, this book delves into the performance of mourning across various mediums. It analyzes a range of texts, including a poignant film by an AIDS patient and the remnants of the Rose theatre. Additionally, it examines grief through the lens of Caravaggio and Holbein's paintings, the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas hearings, and Freud's patient Anna O, highlighting the intricate ways cultures express and process loss.