Country Of Memory

Author : Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222679

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The Country of Memory by Hue-Tam Ho Tai Pdf

"Hue-Tam Ho Tai's masterful collection of essays that explore how the past is being remade in contemporary Vietnam constitutes a welcome addition to the study of the larger problem of engineering memory, especially in political cultures where the identity of the nation-state is in a considerable state of flux . . .. This book also suggests that the 'commemorative fever' that is sweeping Vietnam is about more than Vietnam's history. It also has a great deal to do with the problems premodern cultures presented to those who promoted the creation of contemporary states. In this regard both Vietnam and this book offer all scholars of nationalism and remembering in the West a fascinating perspective on their own nations."—John Bodnar, Chancellors' Professor of History at Indiana University, from the Foreword

Author : K. C. Frederick
Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043790248

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Country of Memory by K. C. Frederick Pdf

A surrealistic novel on the helplessness of man before fate. Set in Central Europe, the hero is a small-time bureaucrat who agrees to replace a friend on a date. The woman belongs to the political opposition, the friend is murdered and the hero's troubles begin. A first novel.

Author : Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9790520222679

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The Country of Memory by Hue-Tam Ho Tai Pdf

Author : Louise Chawla
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0791420744

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In the First Country of Places by Louise Chawla Pdf

These authors describe their relationships with nature and childhood in the context of major Western traditions of philosophy and religion. Each poet confronts the Western image of an alien nature within which histories of individuals are insignificant, and three poets elaborate alternative versions of connection with nature and their own past.

Author : Iain Davidson,Andrew Piper,JS Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000257410

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High Lean Country by Iain Davidson,Andrew Piper,JS Ryan Pdf

High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character of the New England region of northern New South Wales. The authors explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so, this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a whole. Weaving together the histories of human settlement, economic, social and cultural development, as well as interactions with the environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers strived for decades to literally create a new England. It traces the story of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their hands to sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the establishment of schools and other institutions, and the cultivation of traditional arts. It also examines the early colonial bushranging period, and a history of not always friendly relations between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population. A project of the Heritage Futures Research Centre at the University of New England, High Lean Country is a fascinating study of this distinctive Australian high country.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714888

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The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah Pdf

The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.

Author : Anne Brewster
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781621967170

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Giving this Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia by Anne Brewster Pdf

Aboriginal literature is a growing field with a rapidly expanding global audience. The book represents a range of writers; it includes highly acclaimed Aboriginal writers whose works are widely recognised (Kim Scott, Doris Pilkington Garimara, Melissa Lucashenko) and other writers whose works are on the ascendancy (Romaine Moreton and Jeanine Leane). This book contributes to the understanding of Aboriginal literature and of how these writers developed as writers. See www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979114.cfm for reviews, author bio, and more book information on this Cambria Press publication. "This book is an essential resource for anyone with more than a passing interest in Aboriginal writing and Australian literature." - Philip Morrissey, Head of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne

Author : Alexander Dent
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822391098

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River of Tears by Alexander Dent Pdf

River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja’s ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation. Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, he also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil’s country musicians—whose work circulates largely in cities—are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss—of love, of life in the countryside, and of man’s connections to the natural world.

Author : Sebastian Groes,R. M. Francis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030572129

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Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country by Sebastian Groes,R. M. Francis Pdf

From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells and (childhood) memories that belong to the Black Country. This often overlooked region of the United Kingdom at the frontlines of post-industrial upheaval is a veritable treasure trove for studying the relationship between olfaction and place-specific memory. Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between smell and memory in which the contributions consider both personal and communal memory. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the critical essays reconsider psychogeography through cutting-edge sensory and philosophical engagements with physical space, smell, language and human behaviour. The creative contributions from writers including Liz Berry, Narinder Dhami, Anthony Cartwright, and Kerry Hadley-Pryce meditate on the senses, place, and identity. Not only does this book illustrate the rich cultural heritage of the Black Country, it will also appeal to those interested in place writing. The book is prefaced by Will Self.

Author : University Book Store Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0984567569

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Country Without Memory by University Book Store Press Pdf

Author : GEOFF. BROADWAY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789725941

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LIVING MEMORY by GEOFF. BROADWAY Pdf

Author : Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313360282

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Memory Is Another Country by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen Pdf

Winner of the 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles The act of remembering is a means of bringing the past alive and an imaginative way of dealing with loss. It has been the subject of much recent scholarship and is of particular relevance at a time of widespread transnational migration. This book is a valuable and original contribution to the field of diaspora studies. Based on in-depth oral narratives of forty Vietnamese women, it deals with themes both universal and specific to this diaspora: divergent memories in families, the significance of homeland, the return to Vietnam, cross-cultural relationships, intergenerational tensions, and the issues of silence and unspoken trauma among Vietnamese refugees. It is the first study to apply memory and trauma theories to a substantial base of oral narratives by Vietnamese women in the West. Nguyen argues that understanding of these narratives provides not only an insight into the way Vietnamese women have dealt with loss, but also illuminates the experience of the wider Vietnamese diaspora and other refugees.

Author : Charles M. Fishman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972323139

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Country of Memory by Charles M. Fishman Pdf

Country of Memory is a memoir in poetry that uncovers the confusing, mysterious, and often dangerous paths we travel to make sense of our lives. The poems center on family, friendship, nature, and foreign lands, on love and loss of love, and reveal how we somehow manage to grow up and survive. Charles Fishman's fifth booklength collection shines a clear light on the gate of memory, which we must open to understand who we are

Author : Richard Crownshaw,Jane Kilby,Antony Rowland
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1845458478

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The Future of Memory by Richard Crownshaw,Jane Kilby,Antony Rowland Pdf

Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing 'real world' issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about 'trauma'.

Author : Patrick McGuinness
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 9780099587033

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Other People's Countries by Patrick McGuinness Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodard's sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law. This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other people's countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.