Fear and Fantasy in a Global World

Scholars of literature in a variety of languages stir the debate on the processes and meanings of fear and fantasy and the relations between them in the globalized world. They cover local fears and global anxieties; the limits of knowledge: fantasy and identity formation; boundaries and performance: language, memory, and fantasy; and uncanny representations of the self and the other. Among the topics are the transmissive self and transmissive objects in the age of globalization, towards a hermeneutic framework for analyzing the imagination of future threats, the satisfaction of comical fantasy in the Holocaust film comedies of the late 1990s, the fantasy of the archive: an analysis of Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence, a transdisciplinary textual analysis of the digital meta-dissemination of fear in the music videos Marching Song by Esben and the Witch and Born Free by M.I.A., and war on fear: reinterpreting Dante's view of the "infidel." Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Susana Araujo is a Senior Researcher at CEC, University of Lisbon. She is the author ofTransatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror, co-editor of several books and special issues in journals and author of many articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and anthologies.Marta Pacheco Pinto (PhD, 2013) is postdoc at CEC, University of Lisbon. She has published essays in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited volumes, includingTrans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) andMacau na escrita, escritas de Macau (2010). Sandra Bettencourt is a doctoral student in the PhD Programme “Materialities of Literature” at the University of Coimbra. She has co-edited volumes, and published essays in several peer-reviewed journals. She is also the editorial coordinator of the peer-reviewed journal MATLIT.