Exploring Grief: Towards a Sociology of Sorrow

ISBN-13: 9780367192464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Anders Petersen; Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Opis

This book explores grief as a social emotion. Thematically organised, it considers the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society.

Spis treści

Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Grief: Historical, Cultural and Social Explorations of Grief as an Emotion  Part 1: Grief and History  1. Grief in Modern History: An Ongoing Evolution  2. Diversity in Human Grieving: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives  3. The Impact of he Two World Wars on Cultures of Grieving: Grief in England, 1914-1980  Part 2: Grief and Literature  4. Magical Thinking: Experiences of Grief and Mourning in George Saunders’ Lincoln In The Bardo and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing   5. A Story of Loss: Self-Narration of Grief and Public Feeling Rules   6. Writing Grief: The Fraught Work of Mourning in Fiction  Part 3: Forms of Grief  7. The Denial of Grief: Reflections from a Decade of Anthropological Research on Parental Bereavement and Child Death  8. Public Mourning: Displays of Grief and Grievance  9. Grief in Human and Companion-Animal Loss, Bonding and Dividual Pet-Personhood  Part 4: Grief and Social Critique  10. The Medicalisation of Grief  11. Suffocated Grief, Resilience and Survival Among African-American Families  12. Grief in an Individualised Society: A Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic Culture