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Tables of Contents for Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma
1
30
JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma
31
29
NEIL J. SMELSER
3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
60
52
RON EYERMAN
4. The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity
112
43
BERNHARD GIESEN
5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies
155
41
PIOTR SZTOMPKA
6. 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