Death and mourning
Just Because Somebody’s Dead, You Don’t Just Stop Liking Them”: Representations of Death and Mourning in Contemporary Literature for Young Adults
... through mourning requires “a combination of self-knowledge and action which will not blanch before its complicities in power – activity beyond activity, not passivity beyond passivity” ...power death has in ...
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Vernacular mourning and corporate memorialization in framing the death of Steve Jobs.
... photojournalists, mourners took photographs and circulated them via the Internet. A key image was a black and white portrait photograph of Jobs which featured on the cover of Isaacson’s (2011) authorised biography that ...
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Death, Death, I Know Thee Now!' Mourning Jewelry in England and New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
... for mourning jewelry was an ...in mourning jewelry, or hair jewelry, belonged to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, one of Louisiana’s Spanish colonial ...wife’s death, ...of mourning jewelry, the ...
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“Je suis Charlie” and the Digital Mediascape: The Politics of Death in the <i>Charlie Hebdo</i> Mourning Rituals
... of mourning in the digital ...public mourning ritualised in the message “Je suis Charlie” intensified those imagina- tions between ‘us’ (the ones with Charlie) and ‘them’ (those who were not with Char- ...
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Mapping grief A conceptual framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of bereavement, mourning and remembrance
... and mourning has ranged from the sad but anticipated death of elderly friends and relatives, heart-wrenching premature deaths of those with terminal illness, and the unanticipated death of a child at ...
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A Mourning Walk around the World: A New Mother's Buddhist Journey through Death, Grief and Beyond
... courage. Those words were the wisdom that protected me during my son’s slow death We met with I.S., the nurse, and Doctor M., the neonatologist, to take Liam off life-supporting drugs, and oxygen, and monitoring ...
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Article Chasing Death’s Memory: Representational Space in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
... of death and mourning within New York City in wake of the 9/11 terrorist ...the death of young Oskar Schell’s father in the World Trade Center, the narrative follows Oskar on a quest for an ...
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Remembering the Dead
... with death and mourning, ostentatious gravestones and funeral memorials, macabre mourning jewellery containing the hair of the deceased and even more macabre family photographs taken with the dead, ...
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Unseen lives, silent mourning : the visibility of lesbian death in materialised words.
... (dead, death and die) contrasted with the professionals’ greater use of euphemistic language (passed away and ...of death itself in these places, and whether this implicated on wider issues of ...of ...
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Punctive grace : reading religion in Barthes’ Mourning Diary
... it matters little to me to know if God exists or not; but what I know and will know to the end is that He shouldn’t have simultaneously created love and death. The Neutral is the irreducible No: a No so to speak ...
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How People Who Are Dying or Mourning Engage with the Arts
... This article has been primarily concerned with people’s experiences as they face either their own or a significant other’s death, and the need to research this topic from a variety of angles. If my tentative ...
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Wearing Memories: Clothing and the Global Lives of Mourning in Swaziland
... In this article, I first describe standard public circulations of clothing in funerals and their purification. I unpack local concepts of clothing as object and action for memory and how these dynamics reveal notions of ...
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Towards a sociology of (public) mourning?
... the mourning events surrounding Diana’s death were in some way a result of media manipulation; that ‘the assemblies were the result of media-ampli- fied emotion, not its site and origin’ ...the ...
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In the grip of grief: the materiality of mourning in Vital
... Did she really love me? Did I treat her well? Was it my fault? These are the kinds of questions that emerge in mourning. Within the sea of grief there is always also a kernel of doubt that arouses complex, ...
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To be or not to be a (dead) father
... father’s death and weakness, he also knows that the father ...Hamlet’s death are not adhered ...inadequate mourning, a sin for which further sacrifices need to be offered in ...
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A pedagogy of mourning: tarrying with/in tragedy, terror, and tension
... We can also touch this abstract connection with ‘others’ by revisiting our own individual losses; returning again to grief by tarrying with/in that mourning. “For all of us have some notion of what it is to have ...
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Engulfed in Darkness: Mourning Poetics in Classical Japanese Literature
... examines mourning as it was expressed in classical literature of Japan’s premodern period (here defined as the 11th to 14th centuries), with a particular focus on the ways that works responded to each ...the ...
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Reviews Ketaki Datta’s One Year for Mourning
... but death to her is also a relief. Mithi’s father’s death on the wedding day of Tubu is really, as the chapter-heading claims, A Bolt from the Blue, but he too is a warrior in life who sublimates over ...
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Mourning identities : Hillsborough, Diana and the production of meaning
... of death, which like sex, was elsewhere in society subject to strict moral and linguistic ...of mourning by relating it to the perfectly ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ stage of the ‘infantile depressive position’, ...
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Materials for mourning: Bereavement literature and the afterlife of clothes
... The role played by clothing in the translation of dead peers into ancestors is usually overlooked. T he notion of an “ancestor”, someone who is dead but is nonetheless experienced as moral guide, exemplar and source of ...
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