Lori E. Amy

The Wars We Inherit: Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How and why war and military culture have a traumatic impact on families and memory

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781592139606
• ISBN-10: 1592139604
• Artikelnr.: 28897530

Autorenporträt

Lori Amy is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgia Southern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
1. Introduction 
2. Frank and Sally 
3.The Hole Things Fall Into 
4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness 
5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness 
6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the
Process of Witnessing 
7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return 
8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny 
9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to
Speak? 
10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence
of Homes 
11. Toward Re-membering a Future 
12. The Work of Love 
13. Conclusion 
References 
Web Sites 
Index