Memory Is Another Country

Author : Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Leslie Poles Hartley,Neil McEwan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:34779938

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The Go-between by Leslie Poles Hartley,Neil McEwan Pdf

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521294800

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The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal Pdf

Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.

Author : Alistair Thomson
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921867583

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Anzac Memories by Alistair Thomson Pdf

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141186375

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Another Country by James Baldwin Pdf

After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.

Author : K. C. Frederick
Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1579620566

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Country of Memory by K. C. Frederick Pdf

Author : Anatoly M. Khazanov,Stanley Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317989967

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Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics by Anatoly M. Khazanov,Stanley Payne Pdf

These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective memory is formed and dealt with, or ignored and suppressed. Previous books have examined only restricted sets of countries, such as western or eastern Europe, or Latin America. The present volume treats a broader range of cases than any preceding account, and also a much broader time-span, investigating diverse historical and cultural contexts, and the role of national identity and nationalism, studying the aftermath of both fascist and communist regimes in both Europe and Asia in an interdisciplinary framework, while the conclusion provides a more complete comparative perspective than will be found in any other work. The book will be of interest to historians and political scientists, and to those interested in fascism, communism, legacies of war, democratization, collective memory and transitional justice. This book was previously published as a special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

Author : Julie Sedivy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780674980280

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Memory Speaks by Julie Sedivy Pdf

From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal. As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brainÕs capacity to learnÑand forgetÑlanguages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the worldÕs less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom.

Author : Karina Horsti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030305659

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The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe by Karina Horsti Pdf

Increasingly, the European Union and its member states have exhibited a lack of commitment to protecting the human rights of non-citizens. Thinking beyond the oppressive bordering taking place in Europe requires new forms of scholarship. This book provides such examples, offering the analytical lenses of memory and temporality. It also identifies ways of collaborating with people who experience the violence of borders. Established scholars in fields such as history, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, migration and border studies, arts, and cultural studies offer important contributions to the so-called “European refugee crisis”.

Author : Timothy Pytell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782388319

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Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning by Timothy Pytell Pdf

★“[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.”—Library Journal, starred review First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl’s life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the “third Viennese school” amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life. From the introduction: At the same time, Frankl’s testimony, second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell Man’s Search for Meaningin the gift shop.... During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankl’s survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre.

Author : Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455819

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Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe by Eric Langenbacher,Bill Niven,Ruth Wittlinger Pdf

The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.

Author : Joshua Foer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101475973

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Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Pdf

“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 052100070X

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Memory and Power in Post-War Europe by Jan-Werner Müller Pdf

This book is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly.

Author : Patrick McGuinness
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : Jane Spiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194426084

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Storybuilding - Resource Books for Teachers by Jane Spiro Pdf

This very popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, together with resource ideas and materials for the classroom.