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‘Waiting for the Earthquake’: Homosexuality, Disaster Movies and the ‘Message from the Other’ in Juan Goytisolo's Autobiography

‘Waiting for the Earthquake’: Homosexuality, Disaster Movies and the ‘Message from the Other’ in... 1. Foreword: From Sarajevo Spanish Cultural Studies and as Beyond. clearly as The idiot for whom I endeavour possible is ultimately myself. formulate theoretical point —Slavoj Zizek1 and talked about psychoanalysis, not 'cultural specificity'. This incident reminded me of a similar anecdote reported by Slavoj Zizek in The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994). After one of his lectures on Hitchcock at an American campus in 1992 during the war in ex-Yugoslavia, a member of the public indignantly asked him 'how can you talk about such a trifling subject when your ex-country is dying in flames?', which Zizek replied, 'how is it that you in the USA can talk about Hitchcock?'. Zizek had been expected testify as a 'victim' the horrible events in his country (which, as he notes, could not but arouse feelings of'narcissistic satisfaction'in the members of his audience, as this would have indirectly reassured them 'that they [were] alright while things [were] going badly for [him]' [Metastases, 1]). Yet what became unbearable was hearing him talk just like any other Anglo-American critic, about Hitchcock and not about the horrors in ex-Yugoslavia clarify his point, Zizek then goes on denounce the media's construction of the 'Balkans'as the Other http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Paragraph Edinburgh University Press

‘Waiting for the Earthquake’: Homosexuality, Disaster Movies and the ‘Message from the Other’ in Juan Goytisolo's Autobiography

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10.3366/para.1999.22.1.55
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1. Foreword: From Sarajevo Spanish Cultural Studies and as Beyond. clearly as The idiot for whom I endeavour possible is ultimately myself. formulate theoretical point —Slavoj Zizek1 and talked about psychoanalysis, not 'cultural specificity'. This incident reminded me of a similar anecdote reported by Slavoj Zizek in The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994). After one of his lectures on Hitchcock at an American campus in 1992 during the war in ex-Yugoslavia, a member of the public indignantly asked him 'how can you talk about such a trifling subject when your ex-country is dying in flames?', which Zizek replied, 'how is it that you in the USA can talk about Hitchcock?'. Zizek had been expected testify as a 'victim' the horrible events in his country (which, as he notes, could not but arouse feelings of'narcissistic satisfaction'in the members of his audience, as this would have indirectly reassured them 'that they [were] alright while things [were] going badly for [him]' [Metastases, 1]). Yet what became unbearable was hearing him talk just like any other Anglo-American critic, about Hitchcock and not about the horrors in ex-Yugoslavia clarify his point, Zizek then goes on denounce the media's construction of the 'Balkans'as the Other

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Published: Mar 1, 1999

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