American mourning : tragedy, democracy, resilience /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stow, Simon, 1970
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781107158061
1107158060
9781316610589
1316610586
Index Number: E169
CLC: D097.12
Call Number: D097.12/S891
Contents: Introduction -- Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning -- A homegoing for Mrs. King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss -- Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism -- Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return -- Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss.