After pomp and circumstance
Subtitle: high school reunion as an autobiographical occasion
By: Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Class reunions -- United States.; Autobiography.; High school graduates -- United States -- Interviews.; Social control -- United States.; Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Description: For sociologist Vinitzky-Seroussi, the high school reunion presents an ideal forum in which to explore the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and, perhaps, to ascertain just how we have managed to make sense of our lives, from then to now.

After Pomp and Circumstance explores a struggle we all experience: the desire to resolve the tension between public conceptions and internal understandings, to maintain a sense of continuity between past and present lives, and to lay claim to both an integrated self and a unified life history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.