{"product_id":"the-new-black-darian-leader-9781555975425","title":"The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003eFifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In \u003ci\u003eThe New Black\u003c\/i\u003e, Darian Leader argues that this shift is more than semantic; rather, it speaks to our culture's complicated relationship with loss, suffering, and grief. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir, part cultural analysis, Leader draws on examples from literature, art, cinema, and history, as well as case studies from his work as a psychologist, to explore the unconscious ways our culture responds to the experience of loss. He visits a bookstore in search of studies on mourning, and, finding none, moves on to the fiction and poetry sections, where he finds countless examples of mourning in literature. Moving from historical texts of the Middle Ages, to Freud's essays, to Lacan, to Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, Leader provides an innovative tour of mourning and melancholia and our culture's struggle to understand them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darian Leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555975429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/28\/2009 pg. 55","brand":"Darian Leader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985124950271,"sku":"9781555975425","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f2251cc2-3250-41f8-a79e-f53cebb753cd.jpg?v=1683275692","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-black-darian-leader-9781555975425","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}