American Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Mourning write by Catherine Moy. This book was released on 2006. American Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the differing emotional and political reactions of two families dealing with the deaths of their sons, best friends and soldiers who had been killed within five days of each other in the Iraq War.
Passed On
Passed On - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passed On write by Karla FC Holloway. This book was released on 2003-09-03. Passed On available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.
American Afterlife
American Afterlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Afterlife write by Kate Sweeney. This book was released on 2014-03-15. American Afterlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected where her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a necklace containing her ashes. What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale―that of death in America. It’s a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who are personally involved with death: obit writers in the desert, an Atlantic funeral voyage, a fourth-generation funeral director―even a midwestern museum that shows us our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another, revealing a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny. “Sweeney’s quest for the “why” behind mourning rituals has given us a book in the best tradition of narrative journalism.”—Jessica Handler, author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss
Mourning in America
Mourning in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourning in America write by David W. McIvor. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Mourning in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities.In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. McIvor also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004–2006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979—a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
American Mourning
American Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Mourning write by Simon Stow. This book was released on 2017-07-25. American Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.
