Orgad, Shani 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5129-4203
(2009)
The survivor in contemporary culture and public discourse: a genealogy.
Communication Review, 12 (2).
pp. 132-161.
ISSN 1071-4421
Abstract
This article sketches a genealogy examining the production of the concept of “the survivor” in contemporary culture and public discourse across five discursive sites in mainly western (particularly Anglo-American) cultures: the Holocaust, psychotherapy, feminist discourses of childhood and sexual abuse, reality TV, and discourses of health and illness. It argues that the survivor has become a meaningfully visible, cultural notion and a desirable role that individuals are encouraged to assume, rendering the categories of victim and the dead false and illegitimate. The article concludes by arguing for the need in contemporary public and highly mediated space to expand the range of explanatory frameworks through which individuals, especially those experiencing suffering, come to think, judge, and act.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10714421.ht... |
| Additional Information: | © Taylor & Francis Group, 2009 |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2009 15:53 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2024 21:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/24883 |
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