Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction Violence, Normality, and the Construction of Postwar Europe
- 1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and World War II
- 2 Between Pain and Silence
- 3 Paths of Normalization after the Persecution of the Jews
- 4 Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood
- 5 Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945
- 6 “Going Home”
- 7 Desperately Seeking Normality
- 8 Family Life and “Normality” in Postwar British Culture
- 9 Continuities and Discontinuities of Consumer Mentality in West Germany in the 1950s
- 10 “Strengthened and Purified Through Ordeal by Fire”
- 11 The Nationalization of Victimhood
- 12 Italy after Fascism
- 13 The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics
- 14 Dissonance, Normality, and the Historical Method
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction Violence, Normality, and the Construction of Postwar Europe
- 1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and World War II
- 2 Between Pain and Silence
- 3 Paths of Normalization after the Persecution of the Jews
- 4 Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood
- 5 Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945
- 6 “Going Home”
- 7 Desperately Seeking Normality
- 8 Family Life and “Normality” in Postwar British Culture
- 9 Continuities and Discontinuities of Consumer Mentality in West Germany in the 1950s
- 10 “Strengthened and Purified Through Ordeal by Fire”
- 11 The Nationalization of Victimhood
- 12 Italy after Fascism
- 13 The Politics of Post-Fascist Aesthetics
- 14 Dissonance, Normality, and the Historical Method
- Index
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- Life after DeathApproaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s, pp. 349 - 363Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003