Joy Damousi

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War (eBook, ePUB)

Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how intergenerational experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation. Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories, assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi sheds new light on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and processed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316452325
• Artikelnr.: 49271853

Autorenporträt

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Greek war stories in Australia: continuities and discontinuities
2. Assimilation in modern Australia
3. War stories and the migration generation
4. Politics and activism
5. The Greek Civil War and child migration to Australia
6. Remembering the 'Paidomazoma': memories of mothers and children in war
7. Legacies: second generation Greek-Australians
8. The shadow of war
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.