Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of War

by Carol Komaromy and Jennifer Hockey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319766015
• ISBN13: 9783319766010
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"