Austerity Baby

Austerity Baby might best be described as an oblique memoir. Janet Wolffs fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word.

Info autore

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Janet Wolff, Wolff Janet
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.06.2017
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia; Saggistica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9781526121301
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2130-1
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Categorie: England, Britain, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, 20th Century, Memoirs, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Local History, Rochester, Family history, tracing ancestors, Intergenerational Relationships, Autobiography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, American Culture, Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, family history, cultural life, Anglo-American relations, aliens; American culture; Anglo-American relations; Britain; cultural life; England; English culture; family history; Rochester; Second World War, English Culture