Depression: A Public Feeling
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822352389 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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wonderful book, honest + insightful I've been very moved by reading this book. So much to learn about depression, affect studies, and creativity from a really original scholar with a superb writing style. Highly recommended---literally, in that I just told one of my students to read it and said the same thing to my partner last night. It's one of those books that generates word-of-mouth enthusiasm, perhaps because it's so illuminating and thoughtful in its merging of memoir and traditional scholarship.. "Deep Yet Accessible" according to DrNels. A very smart e,exploration of depression and psychic pain for queers, academics, and others who have found previous models lacking. It's theoretically sound yet easily accessible. it's grounded in theory and material reality. It is one I'll revisit often.. Cara Snyder said daring, theoretical and practical. Daring because Cvetkovich displays her journey in depression through memoire. In the first half of the book, she dares to expose herself as well as challenge the types of works and experiences considered "academic." Theoretical because in the second half, the author explores concepts such as political depression and the utopia of daily living that can be tools to understand and navigate the world. And practical because Cvetkovich speaks directly to the very students (the most likely audience) reading her book. It is a unique and affirmin
In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. Building on the insights of the memoir, in the critical essay she considers the idea that feeling bad constitutes the lived experience of neoliberal capitalism.Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colonialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from lesbian feminist practices of crafting. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social transformation.. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and everyday life. She
Along the way, she offers myriad prescriptions, small and large, on how to cope with the daily effects of depression and how to heal the world."—Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust. "A provocative addition to Ann Cvetkovich's eloquent writings on the archives of public feelings, this book takes depression out of the space of the private into the complex politics of our time. Weaving together memoir, cultural and medical history, and literary and theoretical discussion, Cvetkovich experiments with and reflects on unconventional ways of writing about embodiment, cognition, and affect