Performing Hysteria

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6270-211-0
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Cross-disciplinary
analysis of contemporary images and representations of hysteria

We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the
sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the
#metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and
climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent
deployments of hysteria in popular discourse––particularly as they emerge in
times of material and hermeneutic crisis––Performing
Hysteria re-engages the notion of “hysteria”.

Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th- and early 21st-century
(primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this
volume contribute to the multilayered and complex discussions that surround and
foster this resurgent interest in hysteria––covering such areas as art,
literature, theatre, film, television, dance; crossing such disciplines as cultural studies,
political science, philosophy, history, media, disability, race and ethnicity,
and gender studies; and analysing stereotypical images and representations of
the hysteric in relation to cultural sciences and media studies. Of particular importance is the volume's insistence on
taking the intersection of hysteria and performance seriously.

Contributors: Johanna
Braun (University of Vienna), Vivian Delchamps (University of California), Cecily Devereux (University of
Alberta), Sander L. Gilman (Emory University), Elke Krasny (Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna), Jonathan W. Marshall (Edith Cowan University, Western
Australian Academy of Performing Arts), Sean Metzger (University of California), Tim Posada (Saddleback College), Elaine Showalter (Princeton
University), Dominik Zechner (Brown University / Rutgers University)

Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braun, Johanna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionJohanna Braun
HYSTORIES REVISITED. Hysterical Epidemics and Social MediaElaine Showalter
WANDERING IMAGINATIONS OF RACE AND HYSTERIA. The Origins of the Hysterical Body in PsychoanalysisSander L. Gilman
TRAUMATIC DANCES OF “THE NON-SELF”. Bodily Incoherence and the Hysterical ArchiveJonathan W. Marshall
THE PHANTOM ERECTION. Freud’s Dora and Hysteria’s UnreadabilitiesDominik Zechner
“A SLIGHT HYSTERICAL TENDENCY”. Performing Diagnosis in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow WallpaperVivian Delchamps
HYSTERIA ACTIVISM. Feminist Collectives for the Twenty-First CenturyElke Krasny
DELILLO AND MASS HYSTERIASean Metzger
HYSTERIA IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. Back to the “Image Factory” in WestWorldCecily Devereux
#METOO’S FIRST HORROR FILM. Male Hysteria and the New Final Girl in 2018’s RevengeTim Posada
HYSTERICAL CURE. Performing Disability in the Possession FilmJohanna Braun

Über Autor(innen)

Braun, Johanna
Johanna Braun is Principle Investigator of the FWF Erwin Schrödinger research project "The Hysteric as Conceptual Operateur": [J 4164-G24], conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of Vienna.