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Tables of Contents for Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma
1
30
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma
31
29
Neil J. Smelser
Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
60
52
Ron Eyerman
The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity
112
43
Bernhard Giesen
The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies
155
41
Piotr Sztompka
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The ``Holocaust'' from War Crime to Trauma Drama
196
68
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma
264
19
Neil J. Smelser
Bibliography
283
16
Index
299