Preface.

1 Introduction.

PART I LOCATING LAMENT AS OBJECT.

Introduction.

2 For Crying Out Loud: What Is Lament Anyway?

3 Lament and Emotion.

4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament.

PART II LOSING LAMENT: MODERNITY AS LOSS.

Introduction.

5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh.

6 Modern Transformations.

7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity.

8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament.

PART III REVIVING LAMENT: LAMENT AS KEY TROPE OF MODERNITY.

Introduction.

9 Mourning Becomes the Electron’s Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies).

10 Lament’s (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in a Deterritorialized Media Sea.

11 Lament in a Postmodern World of “Revivals”.

12 Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index.