Roy & Me - Inventing Memory

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Yacowar is a professor emeritus in theDepartment of English at the University of Calgary. He also taughtat Brock University, where he helped establish Canada's firstfilm studies program. Klappentext Best known for his service with the Special Air Service during the Second World War, Roy Farran served as a politician in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Premier Peter Lougheed. During his time as a soldier, Farran allegedly kidnapped and murdered a sixteen-year-old member of the Lehi group. Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me , a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran in a memoir that edges toward fiction by venturing into Farran's thoughts. Zusammenfassung Roy & Me is the exploration of Yacowar’s relationship with Roy Farran – soldier, politician, author, mentor – and his conflict with Farran’s anti-Semitic past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Roy andMe 3 Notes 119 Works by Roy Farran 125 About theAuthor 127

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Yacowar
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2010
• EAN: 9781926836102
• ISBN: 978-1-926836-10-2
• Series: Mingling Voices; Mingling Voices Series; Mingling Voices
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)