Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering

by Elizabeth Butler Breese, Ron Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander

Book Overview

Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorised as perpetrators? These are just some of the important questions answered in this collection. Some of the cases analysed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594518874
• ISBN13: 9781594518874
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"