Title: After pomp and circumstance
Subtitle: high school reunion as an autobiographical occasion
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Autobiography, Class reunions, Social control, Interviews, High school graduates, Identity (Psychology)
Places: United States
LC classification: LB3618 .V56 1998