Captive Fathers, Captive Children : Legacies of the War in the Far East Paperback / softback
by Dr Terry (The University of Essex, UK) Smyth
Part of the New Directions in Social and Cultural History series
Paperback / softback
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Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still captivated by the stories of their fathers?
What is it that compels so many of the children, after so many years, to search for the details of their fathers' captivity? And how, over the decades, have they come to terms with their childhood memories?
In his book Terry Smyth treads new ground by examining the processes through which the children's memory practices came to be rooted in the POW experiences of their fathers.
By following a life course approach, and a psychosocial methodology, the book demonstrates how memory and trauma were 'worked into' the social and cultural lives of individual children, and explores how the relationship between their inner psychic worlds and subsequent memory practices unfolded against a challenging and morally ambivalent geopolitical background.
The book invites readers to engage with the author in a journey of exploration and self-reflection, with elements of auto-ethnography adding richness to the text.
Enlivened by interview extracts, case study material and ethnographic observations, this work opens up fresh and ambitious perspectives on the personal legacies of war.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
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- ISBN:9781350194298
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 10 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350194298