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Cruel Optimism

Lauren Gail Berlant

  • 342 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2011
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1 About this book

Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analzying mass media, literature, television, film, and video.

  • Optimism
  • Social conditions
  • Progress
  • Popular culture
  • Social Conditions United States

2 About Lauren Gail Berlant

1957–2021

Lauren Gail Berlant (October 31, 1957 – June 28, 2021) was an American scholar and cultural theorist regarded as "one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States." Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they taught from 1984 until 2021.

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