Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century
The Legacy of War
This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of war,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Komaromy, Carol
- ISBN: 978-3-319-76602-7
- EAN: 9783319766027
- Produktnummer: 27384946
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'107 KB
Über den Autor
Carol Komaromy is Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, UK, where she has worked since 1994. Jenny Hockey is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK.
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