Mourning Diana : nation, culture and the performance of grief / edited by Adrian Kear and Deborah Lynn Steinberg
Imprint
London : Routledge, 1999
Descript
xi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Ghost writing -- Exemplary differences: mourning (and not mourning) a princess -- Our lady of flowers: the ambiguous politics of Diana's floral revolution -- Be(long)ing: new labour, new Britain and the 'Dianaization' of politics -- Rhetoric, nation and the people's property -- Crowd in the age of Diana: ordinary inventiveness and the popular imagination -- Diana and race: romance and the reconfiguration of the nation -- Mourning Diana, Asian style -- Celebrity and the politics of charity: memories of a missionary departed -- Mourning at a distance: Australians and the death of a British princess -- I'd rather be the princess than the queen! mourning Diana as a gay icon -- Diana between two deaths: spectral ethics and the time of mourning -- Downloading grief: minority populations mourn Diana
SUBJECT
Diana
Princess of Wales
1961-1997 -- Death and burial
Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century