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Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship

Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship

Paperback

Art HistoryGeneral DramaMental Health

ISBN10: 0823227340
ISBN13: 9780823227341
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot's wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Although rarely articulated directly,

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