American mourning : tragedy, democracy, resilience /
Stow, Simon,1970-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning -- A homegoing for Mrs. King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss -- Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism -- Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return -- Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss.
Nationalism
Democracy
Bereavement
Grief
Collective memory