Research Catalog

Title

Grief in wartime : private pain, public discourse / Carol Acton.

Author

Acton, Carol, 1958-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Details

Description

viii, 224 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 which war is constructed, 'home' and 'the front', 'ally' and 'enemy', and collapses constructions of war that confine it within geographic limits and dates. Since prescribed bereavement behaviour in British and North American cultures is gendered, and since the defining and regulating of gender roles becomes extreme in a country at war, the author pays particular attention to the gendering of representations of loss in wartime."--Jacket.

Subject

• War and society
• War and literature
• War > Psychological aspects
• Grief
• grief
• Krieg
• Trauer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and index.

Contents

PART I: WAR AND GRIEF AT 'HOME' -- For Women Must Weep -- Grieving the 'Good' War -- Vietnam: The War at Home -- PART II: WAR AND GRIEF AT THE 'FRONT' -- Mourning and Combat: 'No One Sings: Lully, Lully -- 'Can't Face the Graves Today': Nurses Mourn on the Western Front -- Vietnam: Bringing Home the Front -- Epilogue: 'Mother to Mother': The War in Iraq.

ISBN

• 9781403946966
• 1403946965

LCCN

2006051709

OCLC

• ocm74354132
• 74354132
• SCSB-8801006

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library