'It did not traumatise me at all': childhood 'trauma' in French oral narratives of wartime bombing

In oral histories of the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War, 'trauma' is a word rarely used. Here, I examine the seeming absence of trauma in interviews I recorded with people who lived through the bombing as children. I note that this absence is only apparent, and that c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Oral History. - Oral History Society. - 41(2013), 2, Seite 37-48
1. Verfasser: Dodd, Lindsey (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Oral History
Schlagworte:Political science Behavioral sciences History Social sciences Biological sciences
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