Family Life, Trauma And Loss In The Twentieth Century: The Legacy Of War
by Jenny Hockey /
2018 / English / PDF
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This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private
trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory
developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death
Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family
lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either
killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and
shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left
behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material
culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone
alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of
war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey
unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral
and ethical demands this brings.
This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private
trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory
developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death
Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family
lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either
killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and
shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left
behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material
culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone
alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of
war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey
unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral
and ethical demands this brings.Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century
Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century will
be of interest to students and scholars across a range of
disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research
Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life
Writing.
will
be of interest to students and scholars across a range of
disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research
Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life
Writing.