Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics 9
5. The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days 37
6. Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book 55
7. Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition 75
8. Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship 95
9. Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media 115
10. Ain’t It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis 137
11. Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Diasporic Short Fictions 159
12. Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott’s Omeros 179