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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Living with the Aftermath
• Subtitle: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia
• Author: Joy (University of Melbourne) Damousi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9780521802185
• ISBN: 0521802180
• ID: 02043947
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 52 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. April 2001

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