Narrating trauma : on the impact of collective suffering - Eyerman, Ron.; Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-; Breese, Elizabeth Butler (Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, 2011)
On social suffering and its cultural construction / by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Elizabeth Butler Breese -- National suffering and world war -- A fire that doesn't burn? : the allied bombing of Germany and the cultural politics of trauma / by Volker Heins and Andreas Langenohl -- The cultural trauma of a fallen nation : Japan, 1945 / by Akiko Hashimoto -- Revolutionary trauma and representation of the war : the case of China in Mao's era / by Rui Gao -- Ethnic suffering and civil war -- The trauma of Kosovo in Serbian national narratives / by Ivana Spasi -- Trauma construction and moral restriction : the ambiguity of the holocaust for Israel / by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Shai Dromi -- The drama of the Greek civil war trauma / by Nicolas Demertzis -- 1974 and Greek Cypriot identity : the partition of Cyprus as cultural trauma / by Victor Roudometof & Miranda Christou -- The performance of suffering and healing -- Extending trauma across cultural divides : on kidnapping and solidarity in Colombia / by Carlo Tognato -- Claiming trauma through social performance : the case of waiting for Godot / by Elizabeth Butler Breese -- "The worst was the silence" -- Polish trauma : the Katyn massacre / by Dominik Bartmanski and Ron Eyerman -- Unassimilable other-ness : the reworking of traumas by refugees in contemporary South Africa / by Ari Sitas.
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Keywords: Suffering -- Social aspects; Suffering -- Political aspects; Electronic books