Memory, Trauma, and Identity
Memory, Trauma, and Identity

Author: Ron Eyerman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3030135071

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This volume brings together Ron Eyerman’s most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research paradigm. This collection of disparate essays, published between 2004 and 2018, coheres around an original introduction that not only provides a historical overview of cultural trauma, but is also an important theoretical contribution to cultural trauma and collective identity in its own right. The Afterword from esteemed sociologist Eric Woods connects the essays and explores their significance for the broader fields of sociology, behavioral science, and trauma studies..

Cultural Trauma
Cultural Trauma

Author: Ron Eyerman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-13

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780521004374

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In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

You Shall Be My Witnesses
You Shall Be My Witnesses

Author: Archbishop Kazimierz Majdański

Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0757052231

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When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the Catholic Church had a powerful influence on the Polish people. Because this threatened their absolute control, the Nazis set out to destroy the clergy, who were arrested and thrown into concentration camps along with the Jews. Among them was a young seminarian, Kazimierz Majdański. In You Shall Be My Witnesses Majdański chronicles his prison experiences during the war. His words are a testament to the faith and courage of the many voices that were silenced in concentration camps.

A Treasury of Polish Aphorisms
A Treasury of Polish Aphorisms

Author:

Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This collection comprises 225 aphorisms by eighty Polish writers, many of them well known in their native land. A selection of 30 Polish proverbs is included representing some uniquely Polish expressions of universal wisdom. Twenty pen and ink drawings by a talented Polish illustrator Barbara Swidzinska complete this remarkable exploration of true Polish wit and wisdom.

Babcia's Wish
Babcia's Wish

Author: Eryk Jadaszewski

Publisher:

Published: 2009-02-06

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781441473196

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This is a family ghost story handed down from fathers to sons over a century. It is not a story of a haunting or evil but a tale of love and the strength of a family.The story will also give the reader a sense of what life would have been like in a rural Polish village a century ago. The color illustrations will bring the story to life and you will get a sense of what my grandfather may have actually seen on that dark night in that rural Polish village at the turn of the last century.The story presents a message of the importance of family and reveals a surprise ending that will make you wonder' this really could have happened?'