Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still
captivated by the stories of their fathers? What is it that compels
so many of the children, after so many years, to search for the
details of their fathers' captivity? And how, over the decades,
have they come to terms with their childhood memories? In his book
Terry Smyth treads new ground by examining the processes through
which the children's memory practices came to be rooted in the POW
experiences of their fathers. By following a life course approach,
and a psychosocial methodology, the book demonstrates how memory
and trauma were 'worked into' the social and cultural lives of
individual children, and explores how the relationship between
their inner psychic worlds and subsequent memory practices unfolded
against a challenging and morally ambivalent geopolitical
background. The book invites readers to engage with the author in a
journey of exploration and self-reflection, with elements of
auto-ethnography adding richness to the text. Enlivened by
interview extracts, case study material and ethnographic
observations, this work opens up fresh and ambitious perspectives
on the personal legacies of war.
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