Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II
This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and Central Europe, its contributors take a fresh look at the experiences of violence and loss in 1939–45 and their long-term effects in different cultures...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- PART I: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES
- The Limits of Trauma: Experience and Narrative in Europe c. 1945
- Beyond the Western Front
- PART II: CASE STUDIES
- Testing the Silence: Trauma and Military Psychiatry in Soviet Russia and Ukraine During and After World War II
- Experiencing Trauma Before Trauma: Posttraumatic Memories, Nightmares and Flashbacks Among Finnish Soldiers
- Entangled Bystanders: Multidimensional Trauma of Ethnic Cleansing and Mass Violence in Eastern Galicia
- Traumatized Children in Hungary After World War II
- “We will cry a little, but then we will forget”: Narratives of Loss and Victory in Postwar Yugoslavia
- Guilt, Responsibility and Trauma: Restoring the Moral Self-Image in Postwar Slovakia
- “Perpetrator Trauma” in Memoirs of Veterans of the Polish Home Army
- Environmental Trauma in the Narratives of Postwar Reconstruction: The Loss of Place and Identity in Northern Finland After World War II
- Suicide Rates as a “Social Thermometer”: Reading the Traumatized History of Lithuania
- PART III: CODA
- Towards a History of Trauma in Central and Eastern Europe After World War II: A Coda