contributions by John Louis Lucaites, Calum Lister Matheson, W. Patrick Wade, Valerie N. Wieskamp, Joshua Trey Barnett, Christopher J. Gilbert, Joshua Gunn, Atilla Hallsby, Kristen E. Hoerl, Casey Ryan Kelly and Claire Sisco King
epilogue by Rebecca Wanzo
Paper: 978-0-8173-6170-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-2212-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-9530-8
Library of Congress Classification E169.12.P587 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0973
Christopher J. Gilbert is associate professor of English in Communication and Media at Assumption University and author of Caricature and National Character: The United States at War and When Comedy Goes Wrong. His work has also appeared in numerous journals.
John Louis Lucaites is professor emeritus of Rhetoric and Public Culture at Indiana University. He is author, coauthor, and editor of many works, most recently, The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship, coauthored with Robert Hariman.
—Vanessa Meikle Schulman, author of Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
"This book is an insightful (and often poetic) edited collection that navigates the intricate dynamics, generative possibilities, and inextricability of pleasure and pain within the landscape of US public culture. The volume adeptly combines a range of scholarly perspectives and foci that illuminate the nuanced interplay between these fundamental aspects of the human experience. Contributors to the collection explore diverse topics—from environmental ethics and cinematic representations to the politics of comedy and the ethics of trauma representation—to forge a critical conversation that challenges readers to reconsider the paradoxical relationship between pleasure and pain in more productive and ethical ways. This collection not only advances our understanding of pleasure and pain as bedfellows but also prompts a reevaluation of how these forces shape our collective and individual identities, our politics, and our engagements with the world around us.”
—Rebecca Krefting, author of All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents— -
A Note from the Editors
Introduction: On the Conditions of Pleasure and Pain by Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites
Chapter 1. Rhetorical Ecologies of Violent Care: Thinking with Spotted Lanternflies by Joshua Trey Barnett
Chapter 2. War, Satyriasis, and the Comic Pain of Gun Violence in Chi-Raq by Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites
Chapter 3. Shark Party: Trauma Scripts and the Comic Personae of Anthony Jeselnik by Kristen E. Hoerl and Casey Ryan Kelly
Chapter 4. The Texture of Pain: Haptic Visuality, Public Spectatorship, and Compassion in Documentary Photography by W. Patrick Wade
Chapter 5. Negotiating the Kairotic Norms of Trauma: The Kavanaugh Hearings and #WhyIDidntReport by Valerie N. Wieskamp
Chapter 6. A Child Is Being Trafficked: The Figuration of Child Abuse and Desire in Right-Wing Extremist Discourses by Calum Lister Matheson
Chapter 7. Pain, Pleasure, and the Mirror of Enjoyment by Atilla Hallsby and Joshua Gunn
Chapter 8. Owning Up: This White Woman Critic Needs to Do Better by Claire Sisco King
Epilogue: Who Are You to Have This Affect? by Rebecca Wanzo
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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