Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood

ISBN-13: 9789089646736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 336 str.

Scott Loren; Jorg Metelmann

Opis

In this age of public confession and reality television, melodrama has become a pervasive cultural mode. This volume covers a wide range of melodramatic expression in contemporary life, from the public staging of personal suffering to the emotionalization and sentimentalization of national politics, in order to address a key question: if melodramatic models have become so culturally pervasive, what is the political potential of melodramatic victimhood and what are its political limitations?
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