Fear and Fantasy in a Global World

Fear and Fantasy
in a Global World
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties
	The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization
	Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets
	“Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and Back
	Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship
Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation
	The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats
	Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction
	Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)
	Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s
	Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter
Part 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and Fantasy
	A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera
	Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels
	The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence
	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
Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other
	Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey
	The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey
	Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero
	War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel”
Notes on Contributors
Index