Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

✍ Scribed by Cringuta Irina Pelea (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture.

Encompassing a wide range of popular culture genres and mediums – from film and TV to literature, graphic novels, and anime – the chapters offer a dynamic mix of approaches to analyze how popular culture has engaged with specific culture-bound syndromes such as hwabyung, hikikomori, taijin kyofusho, zou huo ru mo, sati, amok, Cuban hysteria, voodoo death, and others.

Spanning a global and interdisciplinary remit, this first-of-its-kind anthology will allow scholars and students of popular culture, media and film studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, cultural psychiatry, and philosophy to explore simultaneously a diversity of popular cultures and culturally rooted mental health disorders.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Towards a New Research Paradigm in Popular Culture
Part I: East Asia
1 When Repressed Anger Fights Back: Hwabyung in Korean Popular Culture
2 Human Encaged: Hikikomori and Taijin Kyofusho in Japanese Popular Culture
3 A Qigong-Induced Mental Disorder: Zou Huo Ru Mo in Chinese Popular Culture
Part II: India and Southeast Asia
4 Cultural Syndromes in India: Understanding Widow Burning in Sati and Jauhar through Indian Literature
5 The Yakshi Syndrome in Indian Popular Culture: Representation of Possessed Female Bodies in Indian Cinema
6 Seeking the Maternal Uncle: A Study of the Culture-Bound Syndrome Known as Nihu in the Karbis
7 Old but Still Going Strong: Don Khong in Thai Popular Culture
8 Rethinking Amok: Indigenous Identity Affirmation in Malay Legends of Southeast Asia
Part III: America and Native American Culture
9 The Next Frame Could Be My Redemption: Signature Wounds and Tunnel-Vision Haunt War-Themed Cultural Artifacts
10 Wendigo Psychosis: From Colonial Fabrication to Popular Culture Appropriations and Indigenous Reclamations
11 Cuban Hysteria: Tracing the Invention of a Culture-Bound Syndrome (1798–1830)
12 Digital Culture-Bound Syndromes: A Sociocultural Perspective on Human-Technology Interaction, Mental Health, and Communication
Part IV: Africa and the Middle East
13 To Kill or to Resurrect: Screening the Agency of Voodoo Priests, Sorcerers and Men of God in Cameroonian and Nigerian Films
14 Belief in the Existence of the Jinn as a Cultural Syndrome: The Case of Sadeq Hedayat’s Fiction
15 Ghostly Environments: Faru Rab and the Transnational in Atlantics (2019)
Index

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