Living with the Aftermath
Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 April 2001
- ISBN 9780521802185
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 239x162x23 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This moving book focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
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This very moving book on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The book makes use of extensive oral testimonies to illustrate how widows internalised and absorbed the traumas of their husband's war experience. Joy Damousi is able to demonstrate that a significant shift in attitudes towards grieving and loss came about between the mid century and the later part of the twentieth century. In charting the memory of grief and its expression, she discerns a move away from the denial and silence which shaped attitudes in the 1950s towards a much fuller expression of grief and mourning and perhaps a new way of understanding death and loss at the beginning of the new century.
"A valuable addition to the literature on Australian war, society and culture, like many good books, Living With the Aftermath raises as many questions as it answers." Pacific Affairs
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Remembering war widows; 2. The wars; 3. Remembering death in war: loss, nostalgia and regret; 4. The question of silence; 5. Marriage wars: 1945-65; 6. Forgotten wars; 7. Memories of death, solitude and renewal; 8. Conclusion.
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