Grief in wartime : private pain, public discourse / Carol Acton.
Grief in wartime : private pain, public discourse / Carol Acton.
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Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N155.937/192
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English
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viii, 224 p. : ill., facsims. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. For women must weep -- 2. Grieving the 'good' war -- 3. Vietnam : the war at home -- 4. Mourning and combat : 'no one sings : lully, lully' -- 5. 'Can't face the graves today' : nurses mourn on the Western Front -- 6. Vietnam : bringing home the front -- 7. Epilogue : 'mother to mother' : the war...
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Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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"Drawing on private expressions of grief expressed in letters, diaries, memoirs and poetry, Carol Acton focuses on the lived experience of wartime loss and on the power of the dominant public narratives to shape and control private experience of grief and its articulation. She shows how the experience of bereavement challenges the binaries through...
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Grief in wartime : private pain, public discourse / Carol Acton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N155.937/192
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74VKOXB2ovOM
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9781403946966 (cloth)
1403946965 (cloth)
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306.9
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991022523379702626
