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Grief in Wartime: Private Pain, Public Discourse
Carol Acton
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Description for Grief in Wartime: Private Pain, Public Discourse
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403946966
SKU
V9781403946966
Shipping Time
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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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