Novedad bibliográfica: "Emotional bodies. The historical performativity of emotions"
Edited by Dolores Martín-Moruno & Beatriz Pichel
What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the
history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new
materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this
fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up
these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework
for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on
emotions' performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and
wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons
and groups—patients, criminals, medieval religious communities,
revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies—perform emotional
practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual
bodies while a section on social and political histories studies the
emergence of collective bodies.
"This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized
collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed
and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical
engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially
welcome."--Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice.