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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300593903321

Autore

Komaromy Carol

Titolo

Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century : The Legacy of War / / by Carol Komaromy, Jenny Hockey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-76602-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVIII, 266 p. 19 illus.)

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Social groups

Family

Great Britain—History

Families

Families—Social aspects

Historical sociology

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

History of Britain and Ireland

Historical Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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 book illustrates how the rich oral history and material culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral and ethical



demands this brings. Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life Writing.