Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.
Title:
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity.
Author:
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
ISBN:
9780520936768
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma -- 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma -- 3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity -- 4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity -- 5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies -- 6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama -- Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the United States, and September 11, 2001.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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