Carol Komaromy

Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century

The Legacy of War

Buch

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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hockey, Jenny

ISBN: 978-3-319-76601-0
EAN: 9783319766010
Produktnummer: 25815346
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 266 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
Abbildungen: Book; 18 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Gewicht: 498

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.