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

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