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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172238803321

Autore

Skultans Vieda

Titolo

The testimony of lives : narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia / / Vieda Skultans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-71488-2

1-280-31853-8

0-203-44501-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

947.96/085

Soggetti

Latvia History 20th century

Latvia History 1940-1991 Biography

Latvia Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 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; APPENDIX I : HISTORICAL BEARINGS; APPENDIX II: PRINCIPAL NARRATORS; NOTES; LATVIAN REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.