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

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Joy Damousi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-80218-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-80218-0
Barcode:	9780521802185

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