Book Details
Orange Code:28077
Paperback:209 pages
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1. The Primal Scene2. Political Assassination, Trauma, and Narration3. Remembering the 1960s: The Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy4. The End of Innocence: The Murders of Olof Palme and Anna Lindh5. The End of Tolerance: The Murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh6. Conclusion
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Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the foundations of collective identity. The theory of cultural trauma is applied in this book to six political assassinations, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy in the United States, Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden and Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands. Only in the Swedish case did a cultural trauma not emerge, this book explains why it did not and why it did in the case of the United States and the Netherlands.
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