Living with the Aftermath : Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia
by
Joy Damousi
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521802180
ISBN-13
9780521802185
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 2nd, 2001
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
52 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
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This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
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.
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