Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 365 g
Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time
Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 365 g
Reihe: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
ISBN: 978-94-6300-188-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
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. Memory is an act of resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence that we know the past and remember those who came before.