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Living with the Aftermath - Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia (Hardcover)
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Living with the Aftermath - Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia (Hardcover)
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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.
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