The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political UsesHarvard University Press, 2000 - 228 páginas Having set aside age-old ways of mourning, how do people in the modern world cope with tragic loss? Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed in our own times and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends. Since ancient times political and religious authorities have been alert to the dangerously powerful effects of communal expressions of grief--while valuing mourning rites as a controlled outlet for emotion. But today grief is often seen as a psychological problem: the bereaved are encouraged to seek counseling or take antidepressants. At the same time, we have witnessed some striking examples of manipulation of shared grief for political effect. One instance is the unprecedented concentration on recovery of the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. In Buenos Aires the Mothers of the Disappeared forged the passion of their grief into a political weapon. Similarly the gay community in the United States, transformed by grief and rage, not only lobbied effectively for AIDS victims but channeled their emotions into fresh artistic expression. It might be argued that, in contrast to earlier cultures, modern society has largely abdicated its role in managing sorrow. But in The Cue for Passion we see that some communities, moved by the intensity of their grief, have utilized it to gain ground for their own agendas. |
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Grief and Its Political Uses Gail Holst-Warhaft. 3 Bones At that time , saith the Lord , they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah , and the bones of his princes , and the bones of the priests , and the bones of the prophets , ...
... bones are usually handled by the women relatives who laid out the dead body . This second burial , with its display of clean bones or ashes , not only marks the release of the fragile corpse ... bones in a tin ossuary bathed in Bones 883.
... bones were ready . Sometimes the flesh is slow . Sometimes a daughter buries her mother twice in the reddish earth as mother had . But her father's bones are dry , as they should be : Good bones . Thick bones . Bones drinking deep . I ...
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