Testimony of Lives - Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia

Informationen zum Autor Vieda Skultans is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Bristol. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In 1944 Skultans left Latvia as a refugee. In 1990 she returned for the first time. This book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a nation trying to come to terms with its past and facing an uncertain future. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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'A beautifully written living history' - The Irish Independent

Product details

• Authors: Vieda Skultans, Skultans Vieda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.1997
• EAN: 9780415162906
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16290-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Economies of Asia; 10
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th Century, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Latvia, Social and cultural history, Biography: historical, political and military