Family Life, Trauma And Loss In The Twentieth Century: The Legacy Of War Paperback

Carol Komaromy

This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral and ethical demands this brings. Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life Writing.

9783030095314

English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

26 Jan 2019

266

Carol Komaromy is Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, UK, where she has worked since 1994. Jenny Hockey is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Jenny Hockey

Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century is a rich and engaging memoir that can be accessed by all, regardless of professional background or specialty. Indeed, its wide scope means that it will appeal to anyone interested in genealogy, material culture, military and social history, as well as death studies. (Laura Towers, Mortality, Vol. 24 (1), 2019)