Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End

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Peter Homans
University of Virginia Press, 2000 - 253 páginas

Historically, many world cultures have linked three disparate phenomena: collective loss; mourning; and the construction of monuments and cultural symbols to represent the loss over time and render it memorable, meaningful, and thereby bearable. In a century of great loss, observers of western culture have commented on the decline of mourning practices and the absence of their associated rituals. The ten essays assembled here by Peter Homans represent, in a genuinely interdisciplinary way, the recent work of scholars attempting to understand this trend. Arranged in sections on cultural studies, architecture, history, and psychology, this accessible collection can serve as an introduction to the uses of mourning in contemporary cultures.

Contributors: Paul A. Anderson, University of MichiganDoris L. Bergen, University of Notre DameMitchell Breitwieser, University of California, BerkeleyPeter Homans, University of ChicagoPatrick H. Hutton, University of VermontMarie-Claire Lavabre, National Institute for Scientific Research, ParisPeter C. Shabad, Northwestern University Medical School and Columbia Michael Reese Hospital and Medical CenterLevi P. Smith, Art Institute of ChicagoJulia Stern, Northwestern UniversityJames E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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CULTURAL STUDIES
27
Fitzgerald Kerouac and the Puzzle of Inherited Mourning
43
Mourning Becomes
62
The Sorrow Songs
83
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
105
The Arts of Countermemory
126
The ArièsVovelle Debate about
147
The Ethnic
171
Symptoms as Memorials
197
Memory and Mourning among
213
Notes on Contributors
239
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Peter Homans is Professor of Psychology and Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. His books include The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis.

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