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Living with the aftermath : = trauma, nostalgia, and grief in post-war Australia /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Living with the aftermath :/ Joy Damousi.
Reminder of title:	trauma, nostalgia, and grief in post-war Australia /
Author:	Damousi, Joy,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 - Australia. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549618
ISBN:	9780511549618 (ebook)

Living with the aftermath : = trauma, nostalgia, and grief in post-war Australia /
Damousi, Joy,

Living with the aftermath :trauma, nostalgia, and grief in post-war Australia /Joy Damousi. - 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Introduction -- 2. War widows remember -- 3. The wars -- 4. Memories of death: Loss, nostalgia and regret -- 5. The question of silence -- 6. Marriage wars -- 7. 'Overlooked': Korean and Vietnam war widows -- 8. Death, solitude, and renewal.

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.

ISBN: 9780511549618 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800148
World War, 1939-1945
--Australia.

LC Class. No.: D767.8 / .D365 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 155.9/37/0820994

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