The labour of loss : mourning, memory, and wartime bereavement in Australia / Joy Damousi.
The labour of loss : mourning, memory, and wartime bereavement in Australia / Joy Damousi.
The labour of loss : mourning, memory, and wartime bereavement in Australia / Joy Damousi.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N155.937/146
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English
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x, 212 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. The First World War. 1. Theatres of Grief, Theatres of Loss. 2. The Sacrificial Mother. 3. A Father's Loss. 4. The War Widow and the Cost of Memory. 5. Returned Limbless Soldiers: Identity through Loss -- Pt. II. The Second World War. 6. Absence as Loss on the Homefront and the Battlefront. 7...
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Publisher
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
The Labour of Loss explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, it makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends...
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The labour of loss : mourning, memory, and wartime bereavement in Australia / Joy Damousi.
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 7.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N155.937/146
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74VvrAyg8A8Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrAyg8A8Z
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052166974X (alk. paper) (pbk.)
052166974X (alk. paper)
9780521660044 (alk. paper)
0521660041 (alk. paper)
9780521660044 :
0521660041 :
052166974X(pbk.)
9780521660044
0521660041
052166974X (pbk.)
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155.937
155.9370994
306.909940904
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991011406639702626
