Vieda Skultans

The Testimony of Lives

Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

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Produktbeschreibung

Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than 100 interviews carried out in the wake of Latvian independence, it gives voice to stories of dispossession and exile and of ambiguous returns. At the same time it unpicks the process of memory itself, showing how personal memory is shaped by the traditional narratives of national history and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415162890
• ISBN-10: 0415162890
• Artikelnr.: 21017812

Autorenporträt

Vieda Skultans is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 A FAMILY HISTORY 2 A CHRONICLE OF RESEARCH 3 ORDER IN
NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE 4 READING LETTERS 5 DESTINY AND THE SHAPING OF
AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 THE EXPROPRIATION OF BIOGRAPHY 7 THE LIVED AND THE
REMEMBERED FOREST 8 DAMAGED LIVES, DAMAGED HEALTH 9 MEANINGS LOST AND
GAINED 10 HABITABLE IDENTITIES