Negotiated Memory - Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse

Julie Rak is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Beyond Auto-Bio-Graphe: Autobiography and Alternative Identities
2 Doukhobor Beliefs and Historical Moments
3 Vechnaiia Pamit in the Diaspora: Community Meanings of History and Migration
4 Negotiating Identity: Doukhobor Oral Narratives
5 Witness, Negotiation, Performance: Freedomite Autobiography
Conclusion: Negotiating the "I" and "We" in Autobiography
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Julie Rak is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.

Summary

This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Rak
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780774810319
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1031-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Weight: 260 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous