{"product_id":"the-writers-fugue-ruth-skilbeck-9780992277949","title":"The Writer's Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpanded and updated edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Fugue\u003c\/em\u003e, with an additional 80 page section updating Skilbeck's research into writers in exile, and those held in Australian-run detention centres, including Behrouz Boochani; and also the Australian poet and dramaturg émigré Christopher Barnett, in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Ruth Skilbeck chronicles the morphology of the word fugue in music, psychology and literature in Part 1 of \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Fugue\u003c\/em\u003e, the book based on her PhD, then in Part 2, offers fine-grained analyses of literary fugues by Thomas de Quincey, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath in biographical, historical, social and cultural contexts. Skilbeck finds that each of them turned to musical form in writing of traumatic experiences of loss of loved ones, war, exile, and concentration camps. In the chapter on dissocative fugue and statelessness, she reviews the emergence of the term fugue in medical history, the1890s fugue 'epidemic' in France and later epidemics and cases in cultural and medical research literature, and media and government reports, including on the case of the young female Australian resident Cornelia Rau incarcerated in an Australian immigration detention centre in the desert as she forgot her name. This edition updates the research in the chapter in \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Fugue\u003c\/em\u003e 'Exiled Writers, Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis', first published in a special issue of \u003cem\u003eCommunication and Critical\/Cultural Studies \u003c\/em\u003e(Vol. 7, No. 3, Sept. 2010), \u003cem\u003eCultural Studies of Right: Critical Articulations\u003c\/em\u003e also published by Routledge as a book, in which she extends her approach of fugal analysis to review the works of two writers in exile held in immigration detention camps in Australia. This edition includes new case studies of writers in exile including Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island, and the protest movements focusing on protest in the arts, and the Sydney Biennale 2014 boycott protest by the biennale artists against the detention policies and practices, and specifically the sponsorship of the biennale by the company awarded the contract to manage Manus island detention centres, which held artists and writers, amongst many others. Skilbeck's reading offers a counterpoint to critical readings of modernism as socially and politically unengaged. Her insights reflecting on 'fugal writing' in the context of the global era of wars, conflict, enforced migrations, and exiled writers in detention reveal a political and cultural relevance to the earlier romantic and modernist poetic writings for the 'musicalized' formal inventive qualities for which they may have been criticised, as being self based and subjective, reading these differently in cultural contexts as signs of individual resilience and transformations of trauma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Skilbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0992277949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780992277949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Borderstream Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Ruth Skilbeck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441566855423,"sku":"9780992277949","price":63.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_553d61f9-3500-43c1-9845-3f9e2d2441b7.jpg?v=1777191705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-writers-fugue-ruth-skilbeck-9780992277949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}