Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom by Elisabeth R. Anker

Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom

Elisabeth R. Anker

352 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discour...

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