Judith Pearl Summerfield

A Man Comes from Someplace

Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time. Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a lost world, a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. Explores narrative as cultural study, cultural performance, meta-narrative, and auto-ethnography. Story as antidote to trauma, the insistence that we know the past, and remember those who came before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9789004370968
• ISBN-10: 900437096X
• Artikelnr.: 52001313

Autorenporträt

Judith Pearl Summerfield is Professor Emerita in English, Queens College, (CUNY). She is the recipient of numerous local, state, and national awards and grants for teaching, scholarship, and research, including being named the New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. Summerfield has written extensively about rhetoric, composition, narrative studies, and a liberalizing education. This is her ninth book. She introduced the first edition of A Man Comes from Someplace at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Prologue: Ukraine, 2011; Introduction: So, Here’s the Story; Time and Place; Family; End of a World; Going to America; A Brother’s Keeper; A Man Without Papers; Immigrant Life; Finding a Place; Holding on to the Past; Return to the Old Country; The Place Itself; Stories to Grow On; Index.