Labour of Loss - Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia

Klappentext This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1999! explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries! this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The First World War: 1. Theatres of grief, theatres of loss; 2. The sacrificial mother; 3. A father's loss; 4. The war widow and the cost of memory; 5. Returned limbless soldiers: identity through loss; Part II. The Second World War: 6. Absence as loss on the homefront and the battlefront; 7. Grieving mothers; 8. A war widow's mourning.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joy Damousi, Joy (University of Melbourne) Damousi
• Mitarbeit: Paul Kennedy (Herausgeber), Jay Winter (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.06.1999
• EAN: 9780521660044
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66004-4
• Seiten: 222
• Serien: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Themen: Ratgeber > Lebenshilfe, Alltag > Lebensführung, Persönliche Entwicklung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein