Lazarre The Communist and the Communist's Daughter

A Memoir
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7238-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

In this poignant memoir Jane Lazarre tells the fascinating history of her father Bill, a radical activist who, as part of his tireless efforts to create a better world for his family, held leadership positions in the American Communist Party, fought in the Spanish Civil War, and organized labor unions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazarre, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 1
Part I. Beginnings
Chapter 1 11
Chapter 2 18
Part II. An American
Chapter 3 27
Chapter 4 34
Part III. Spain
Chapter 5 55
Chapter 6 58
Chapter 7 60
Chapter 8 74
Chapter 9 77
Part IV. A Bad Wind
Chapter 10 95
Chapter 11 101
Chapter 12 105
Chapter 13 110
Chapter 14 122
Chapter 15 125
Part V. The Un-Americans
Chapter 16 131
Chapter 17 138
Chapter 18 150
Part VI. The Mutilated World
Chapter 19 161
Chapter 20 172
Part VII. Endings
Chapter 21 189
Chapter 22 196
Chapter 23 202
Epilogue 205
Notes 211

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Lazarre is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoirs Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery, and The Mother Knot, all also published by Duke University Press, as well as the novels Inheritance and Some Place Quite Unknown. She has won awards for her fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lazarre founded and directed the undergraduate writing program at Eugene Lang College at the New School for ten years and taught creative writing and literature there for twenty years. She has also taught at the City College of New York and Yale University. Lazarre lives in New York City.