Discussion Questions -- 11. The Terrorist Attack of September 11 -- Shattered Assumptions -- Causal Explanations -- The War on Terrorism -- Homeland Security -- The Culture of Fear -- Discussion Questions -- III. Epilogue -- 12. Collective Memory -- Generational Effects -- Commemoration -- Popular Culture and Mass Entertainment -- Links Between the Past and the Future -- Discussion Questions -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
CHAPTER 3 Cultural Trauma Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity RON EYERMAN In this chapter I explore ... The trauma in question is slavery , not as institution or even experience , but as collective memory , a form of ...
We want to thank MA student Lao Rujie from Nanjing University and Ph.D. candidate Xia Yuanjie from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They were the research assistants for this book in the summer of 2015. They helped collect much of ...
Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery.
Separated into two distinct parts on theory and practice, this volume is appropriate for practitioners as well as students in advanced courses.
This volume is a vital contribution to memory studies and trauma theory. Collective Traumas is a result of the multidisciplinary research project on Memory Culture that was initiated in 2002 at Karlstad University, Sweden.
This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach.
Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis.
Eloquently and vibrantly told, The Culture of Defeat is a tour de force that opens new territory for historical inquiry.
" Drawing on ethnography, interviews, and a wealth of popular memory data, this book identifies three preoccupations - national belonging, healing, and justice - in Japan's discourses of defeat.
This work seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of the international dimension of trauma and memory and its manifestations in various cultural contexts.