CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Ferrell, Ashley Patricia |
|---|---|
| Title | Boston Marathon Bodies: Affectively rehabilitating bodies of the survivor and surviving nation |
| Summary | Following the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon, copious images and witness accounts of the event depicted gruesome, violent imagery of corporeal harm and dismemberment, of flesh, blood and body parts. In time, however, initial emphases on gore were replaced by particularized attention to survivors, with the rehabilitation of their injured bodies – and their personal lives – as the focus. Throughout this project, I question how, in the immediacy of the explosions, the circulation of affect (in particular, of disgust and shame) operated. In what ways might the temporality of these affects, their tensions and oscillation over chronological time, contribute to fortifying or foiling national community building? As particular affects wane and others emerge, what space opens up for the re-integration of survivors and the re-production of ‘normal’ subjects? |
| Supervisor | Yoon, Hyaesin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/ferrell_ashley.pdf |
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