Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning

by Lene Auestad

This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by "working through the past"?, 'How is a shared work of mourning to be understood?', and 'With what legitimacy do we consider a particular social or cultural practice to be "mourning"?' Rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780491611
• ISBN13: 9781780491615
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"