Joy Damousi

The Labour of Loss

Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780521660044
• ISBN-10: 0521660041
• Artikelnr.: 29338151

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The First World War: 1. Theatres of grief, theatres of loss
2. The sacrificial mother
3. A father's loss
4. The war widow and the cost of memory
5. Returned limbless soldiers: identity through loss
Part II. The Second World War: 6. Absence as loss on the homefront and the battlefront
7. Grieving mothers
8. A war widow's mourning.