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The Cue for Passion The Cue for Fassion GRIEF AND ITS POLITICAL USES Gail Holst-Warhaft HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2000 Copyright © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holst-Warhaft, Gail, 1941- The cue for passion : grief and its political uses / Gail Holst-Warhaft. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-00224-5 (alk. paper) 1. Mourning customs—Political aspects. 2. Grief—Political aspects. I. Title. GT3390.H65 2000 393'.9—dc21 00-021841 For Zoe and Simon Acknowledgments I owe thanks to many people who have read this book in its various ear- lier incarnations and offered advice and encouragement. In particular I thank Margaret Alexiou, Cynthia Chase, David Curzon, Gregory Dobrov, Michael Fishbane, Sander Gilman, Elliot Ginsburg, Lorraine Helms, Michael Herzfeld, Iakovos Kambanellis, Chana Kronfeld, Da- vid McCann, Sarah McKibben, Paul Muldoon, Spyros Orfanos, Carlos Rodríguez Matos, Keith Taylor, Sidney Tarrow, Susan Tarrow, James Winn, James Young, and the Institute for the Humanities at the Uni- versity of Michigan, which invited me to present a paper based on some of the material in Chapter 2. Research for this book began while I was a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. I thank its director, Dominick LaCapra, and the fellows of the year 1996-97 for their stimulating dis- cussions. I thank Daniel Fireside for interpreting and facilitating my discussions with two of the mothers of the "disappeared" of Argentina, Elsa Santi de Manzoti and Evel Aztarbe Petrini, and with members of the Guatemalan "Organization of Widows." I also wish to thank Geor- gette King and Angel Sierra, of AIDSWORK, for information about the Ithaca community, and Caroline Spicer, reference librarian at Cor- nell's Olin Library, for her invaluable help. Lastly, I thank my dear, demanding reader, Zellman. Contents Introduction: The Theater of Mourning 1 1 Tears 20 2 Laughter 54 3 Bones 78 4 Disappearance 104 5 Plague 124 6 Memorials 158 Afterthoughts 198 Notes 203 References 213 Index 225
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