Fear and Fantasy in a Global World

Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at CEC, University of Lisbon. She is the author of Transatlantic 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, including Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010) and Macau 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.

• AcknowledgmentsSusana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra BettencourtIntroductionPart 1: Local Fears, Global AnxietiesChristopher BollasThe Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of GlobalizationJames Rushing DanielDreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The PetsDavid Vichnar“Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and BackEdith BeltránMexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in CitizenshipPart 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity FormationMartijn BovenThe Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future ThreatsChristin GrunertConflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary FictionGero GuttzeitFearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)Marija SrukLaugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990sAlexandra HillsViennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night PorterPart 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and FantasyHarriet HulmeA Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and KunderaAna Filipa PrataMemory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor AngelsHande GursesThe Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of InnocenceJoão Pedro da CostaThe 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 FreePart 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the OtherOrtwin de GraefShaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De QuinceyBrecht de GrooteThe Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De QuinceyMargarita García CandeiraHabitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García MonteroDaniela Di PasqualeWar on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel”Notes on ContributorsIndex