Research Catalog

Title

After pomp and circumstance : high school reunion as an autobiographical occasion / Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi.

Author

Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.

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Details

Description

x, 203 pages; 24 cm

Summary

For sociologist Vinitzky-Seroussi, the high school reunion presents an ideal forum in which to explore the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and, perhaps, to ascertain just how we have managed to make sense of our lives, from then to now. After Pomp and Circumstance explores a struggle we all experience: the desire to resolve the tension between public conceptions and internal understandings, to maintain a sense of continuity between past and present lives, and to lay claim to both an integrated self and a unified life history.

Subject

• Class reunions > United States
• Autobiography
• High school graduates > United States > Interviews
• Social control > United States
• Identity (Psychology) > United States
• Autobiographies as Topic
• autobiography (genre)
• Autobiography
• Class reunions
• High school graduates
• Identity (Psychology)
• Social control
• High school
• Klassentreffen
• Scholen
• Schoolklassen
• Reünies
• Sociale controle
• Identiteit
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Interviews
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

Contents

The Research Site and the Attendees -- Community, Continuity, and the One-Night Stand -- Reunions as Social Control -- Autobiography as a Social Endeavor -- A Memory of a Collective -- Encountering a Personal Past -- Managing Discontinuity -- Between Situated Identity and Personal Identity -- Conclusion: Reunions and Beyond.

ISBN

• 0226856682
• 9780226856681
• 0226856690
• 9780226856698

LCCN

97035174

OCLC

• ocm37682659
• 37682659
• SCSB-8907163

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library