A man comes from someplace stories, history, memory from a lost time
A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time is a cultural study of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in southwestern Ukraine before World War I to their international lives in the 21st century.The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, becomes a transfor...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Taipei, Taiwan
Sense Publishers
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Transgressions
110 |
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Geschichte 1920-2011
> Families / History
> Jewish families / Ukraine / History
> Jewish families / United States / History
> Storytelling
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
> Families
> Jewish families
> Geschichte
> Juden
> Auswanderung
> Einwanderung
> Familie
> Ukraine
> United States
> USA
> Biografie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time is a cultural study of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in southwestern Ukraine before World War I to their international lives in the 21st century.The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, becomes a transformative space for re-presenting family stories as cultural performance. The study draws from many sources: ethnographic interviews with an oral storyteller (the author?s father), family letters, papers from immigration and relief organizations of the 1920s, eyewitness reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, genealogy, and cultural, historical, and literary research. The book investigates the ways family stories can be collected, interpreted, and re-presented to situate story in history and to re-envision connections between the past, present, and future. Family stories become memory sites for interrogating questions of loss and displacement, exile, immigration, survival, resilience, and identity. Stories function as antidotes to trauma, a means of making sense of the world. Memoryis an act of resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence that we know the past and remember those who came before. Judith Pearl Summerfield,Professor Emerita in English, Queens College, The City University of New York, is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for teaching, scholarship, and research. She has written extensively about rhetoric, composition, narrative studies, and education. In 2011, she found her way back to the place her family had come from in Ukraine |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | xxiv, 226 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9789463001885 978-94-6300-188-5 9789463001892 978-94-6300-189-2 |