Fear and Fantasy in a Global World

419 Pages·2015·6.032 MB·English

by  Susana Araújo

Fear and Fantasy in a Global World
Textxet
Studies in Comparative Literature
Series Editors
C.C. Barfoot
Theo D’haen
VOLUME 81
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Fear and Fantasy
in a Global World
Edited by
Susana Araújo
Marta Pacheco Pinto
Sandra Bettencourt
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Corrida / Running, 1983. Tinta acrílica sobre papel montado em tela / Acrylic on paper
mounted on canvas, 239 × 202 cm. Col. / Coll. Paula Rego, em comodato na / under loan for use Fundação
Paula Rego – Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais.
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CONT ENTS

Acknowledgments

Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra Bettencourt
Introduction 1

Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties

Christopher Bollas
The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in
the Age of Globalization 15

James Rushing Daniel
Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in
Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets 35

David Vichnar
“Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”:
From Zero to 2666, and Back 55

Edith Beltrán
Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas
Engage in Citizenship 75

Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge:
Fantasy and Identity Formation

Martijn Boven
The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework
for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats 101
Christin Grunert
Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for
Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific
Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction 123

Gero Guttzeit
Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth
in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) 143

Marija Sruk
Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy
in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s 163

Alexandra Hills
Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy
and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana
Cavani’s The Night Porter 185

Part 3: Boundaries and Performance:
Language, Memory and Fantasy

Harriet Hulme
A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of
Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera 213

Ana Filipa Prata
Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels 239

Hande Gurses
The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s
The Museum of Innocence 259

João Pedro da Costa
The Digital Meta-Dissemination of Fear in Music Videos.
A Transdisciplinary Textual Analysis of Two Case Studies:
Esben and the Witch’s Marching Song and M.I.A.’s Born Free 279
Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other

Ortwin de Graef
Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck,
Woolf and De Quincey 303

Brecht de Groote
The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality,
and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge
and De Quincey 323

Margarita García Candeira
Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language:
Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío,
by Luis García Montero 351

Daniela Di Pasquale
War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel” 373

Notes on Contributors 397

Index 405

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The editors would like to thank the members of the Hermes
Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies for the ongoing and
stimulating venture which is the Hermes Doctoral Summer Seminar
and Symposium: The University of Aarhus (Denmark), University of
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Charles University (Czech Republic),
University College London (UK), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
(Germany), University of Helsinki (Finland), Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (Belgium), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Stanford
University (USA), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and
University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
The editors also wish to thank the research Centre for Comparative
Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEC) for institutional and
financial support. We are thankful to Helena Buescu, who supported
this project since the beginning, and to the current Director of CEC,
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, for her continuing support. Special thanks
are due to Francisco Serra Lopes for his revision to the volume’s
Introduction and to Everton Machado for his comments. This work
follows the scientific goals of Project CILM (reference PTDC/CLE-
LLI/110694/2009).
Thanks are also due to Masja Horn from Rodopi for her precious
collaboration, as well as Textxet’s series editors, Theo D’haen and
Cedric Barfoot, for their editorial support. Last but not least, the
editors will always be grateful to the painter Paula Rego and to her
museum Casa das Histórias: Rego’s fearless art work and bold
approach to fantasy have been major sources of inspiration to the
conception and editing of this volume.