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After Pomp and Circumstance - High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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After Pomp and Circumstance - High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Menacing, nerve-racking, uncomfortably intrusive, the high school
reunion has become a dreaded encounter with the past and present
for many Americans. It is a moment of both heightened
self-awareness and public presentation, insisting that people
account for themselves, not merely to their own satisfaction, but
to the satisfaction of others as well. For the author, this
situation presents an ideal forum in which to explore the ongoing
construction of identity in American society, and, perhaps, to
ascertain just how people have managed to make sense of their
lives, from then to now. As autobiographical occasions, reunions
prompt us to examine our own life narratives, the stories we tell
ourselves about who we are and how we have come to be that person.
But at the same time, they threaten the integrity of those very
stories, subjecting them to the scrutiny of others whose memories
of the past and ourselves may be altogether different from our own.
Reunions, then, engender a fragile community held together by the
resources of a shared past, yet imperiled by the tensions of
competing histories. Inevitabley, they force a kind of biographical
confrontation. This book explores that struggle, the desire to
resolve the tensions 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.
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