Gemma Romain

Connecting Histories (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136220630
• Artikelnr.: 47893740

Autorenporträt

Gemma Romain works at The National Archives, Kew on a Heritage Lottery Fund project called 'Your Caribbean Heritage', cataloguing and researching colonial office original correspondence from the British Caribbean. She co-edited with David Cesarani, 'Jews and Ports Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006). Previously, she carried out her Ph.D. at the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, where she compared and analysed ethnic memories and histories of African-Caribbean and Jewish communities in modern Britain. She was also a researcher and writer for the 'Connections: Hidden British Histories' project, a historical exhibition exploring Asian, Caribbean, and Jewish history in Britain. Additionally, she is a Committee Member of the Society for Caribbean Studies, UK, and an Executive Member of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCore).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Historical and Ethnic Memory in Life History
Part 1 Paradoxes of Migration
Chapter 2 Myths, Silence and Autobiographical Contexts
Chapter 3 The Self-Knowing Autobiographical Voice, Meta-Memory and the Deconstruction of Myths
Part 2 'By the Waters of Babylon'
Chapter 4 Theorisations of the Diaspora
Chapter 5 Memories of 'Dwelling' and Migration
Part 3 Hidden Histories, Collective Memory, Remembering and Forgetting in Black and Jewish Ethnic Memory
Chapter 6 Re-remembering and Forgetting Histories
Chapter 7 Mythology and History
Chapter 8 Conclusion