Abstract

1. Robert Kennedy and Robert McNamara: Contrasting Visions of Tragedy in the Sixties SECTION I: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL AGENCY 2. Vaclav Havel: The Political Uses of Tragedy in the Aftermath of Communism 3. Italian Neorealism: Tragic Cinema in the Aftermath of Fascism 4. Cornel West: Tragedy and the Fulfillment of American Democracy SECTION II: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL SOLIDARITY 5. Nelson Mandela: Tragedy in a Divided South Africa 6. 9/11: Tragedy and Theodicy as American Responses to Suffering SECTION III: TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY 7. Botho Strauss: Goatsong in a Democratic Key? 8. Christa Wolf: Greek Tragedy and German Democracy 9. Michael Schorr's Schultze Gets the Blues: German Borrowings from the New World African Tragic 10. Hannah Arendt: Anticipating a Different Kind of Sixties Tragedy.

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