Contributor
Blanco, Maria-José, editor.
Imprint:New York : berghahn, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Part I: Death in Society -- Life extension, immortality and the patient voice / Catherine Jenkins -- Beyond 'mourning and melancholia' / Lynne M. Simpson -- War and requiem compositions in the twentieth century / Wolfgang Marx -- Part II: Death in Literature -- Understanding death/writing bereavement: The writer's experience / Maria-Jose Blanco -- A way of sorrows for the twentieth century: Margherita Guidacci's La Via Crucis dell'umanita / Eleanor David -- From self-erasure to self-affirmation: Communally acknowledged 'good death' in Ernest Gaines's A Less on Before Dying / Corina Crisu -- Habeas Corpse: The dead body of evidence in John Grisham's The Client / Fiorenzo Iuliano -- The fascination with torture and death in twenty-first century crime fiction / Rebecca Shillabeer -- Part III: Death in Visual Culture -- The power of negative creation -- Why art by serial killers sells / Ricarda Vidal -- Screening the dying individual: Film, mortality and the ethics of spectatorship / John Horne -- The broken body as spectacle: Looking at death and injury in sport / Julia Banwell -- Death on display: The ideological function of the Mummies of the World exhibit / Diane York Blaine -- Part IV: Cemetaries and Funerals -- The Romanian carnival of death and the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta / Marina Cap-Bun -- In the dead of night: A nocturnal exploration of heterotopia in the graveyard / Bel Deering -- Scenarios of death in contexts of mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon / Clara Saraiva and Jose Mapril -- Karaoke death: Intertextuality in active euthanasia practices / Natasha Lushetich -- Part V: Personal Reflections on Death -- Death is not what it used to be: A comparison between customs of death in the UK and Spain. Changes in the last thirty-five years / Lala Isla -- The dad project / Briony Campbell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
