Narrating trauma
Subtitle: on the impact of collective suffering
By: edited by Ron Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, and Elizabeth Butler Breese
Series: Yale cultural sociology series
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781594518867; 9781594518874; 9781612050164
Subjects: Social aspects; Suffering; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On social suffering and its cultural construction / by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Elizabeth Butler Breese; title: National suffering and world war; title: A fire that doesn't burn? : the allied bombing of Germany and the cultural politics of trauma / by Volker Heins and Andreas Langenohl; title: The cultural trauma of a fallen nation : Japan, 1945 / by Akiko Hashimoto; title: Revolutionary trauma and representation of the war : the case of China in Mao's era / by Rui Gao; title: Ethnic suffering and civil war; title: The trauma of Kosovo in Serbian national narratives / by Ivana Spasi; title: Trauma construction and moral restriction : the ambiguity of the holocaust for Israel / by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Shai Dromi; title: The drama of the Greek civil war trauma / by Nicolas Demertzis; title: 1974 and Greek Cypriot identity : the partition of Cyprus as cultural trauma / by Victor Roudometof & Miranda Christou; title: The performance of suffering and healing; title: Extending trauma across cultural divides : on kidnapping and solidarity in Colombia / by Carlo Tognato; title: Claiming trauma through social performance : the case of waiting for Godot / by Elizabeth Butler Breese; title: "The worst was the silence"; title: Polish trauma : the Katyn massacre / by Dominik Bartmanski and Ron Eyerman; title: Unassimilable other-ness : the reworking of traumas by refugees in contemporary South Africa / by Ari Sitas.