Ebook: Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief

Although generally resented and deemed unfavourable for individuals, societies and nations, grief, grievance, and grieving, along with a complex list of epithets that could, under varying circumstances, accompany them - racial grief, political grievance, protracted grieving, chronic grief, traumatic, unresolved grievance - nevertheless occupy a significant place in culture and its manifestations in literature, art, history, science, and politics.