The labour of loss mourning, memory, and wartime bereavement in Australia
Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this work explores how mothers, fathers, girlfriends, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 7. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39701724*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
