Grief in Wartime
Carol Acton
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Description for Grief in Wartime
Paperback. Examines the interface between narratives of private loss and grief in wartime and discourses structuring publicly accepted and legitimized forms of grieving and mourning. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBW; JFC; JFF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
An examination of private narratives of loss in wartime and publicly legitimized forms of grieving. Drawing on sources such as diaries, poetry and weblogs and using gender as an analytic category, the book looks at men's and women's experiences of war 'at home' and 'at the front' and spans the two World Wars, the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.
An examination of private narratives of loss in wartime and publicly legitimized forms of grieving. Drawing on sources such as diaries, poetry and weblogs and using gender as an analytic category, the book looks at men's and women's experiences of war 'at home' and 'at the front' and spans the two World Wars, the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349524020
SKU
V9781349524020
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Ref
99-15
About Carol Acton
CAROL ACTON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St Jerome's University, Waterloo, Canada. Her primary research area is gender and war. She has published on Vera Brittain's wartime correspondence and on nurses' writing from the First World War and the Vietnam War.
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