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UNINA9910138442003321 |
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Joghi Thatha Gowder Sivakumar |
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Cholera / / edited by Sivakumar Joghi Thatha Gowder |
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IntechOpen, 2012 |
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Rijeka : , : InTech, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cholera, a problem in Third World countries, is a complicated diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The latest outbreak in Haiti and surrounding areas in 2010 illustrated that cholera remains a serious threat to public health and safety. With advancements in research, cholera can be prevented and effectively treated. Irrespective of "Military" or "Monetary" power, with one's "Own Power", we can defeat this disease. The book "Cholera" is a valuable resource of power (knowledge) not only for cholera researchers but for anyone interested in promoting the health of people. Experts from different parts of the world have contributed to this important work thereby generating this power. Key features include the history of cholera, geographical distribution of the disease, mode of transmission, Vibrio cholerae activities, characterization of cholera toxin, cholera antagonists and preventive measures. |
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UNINA9910645995003321 |
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Davis Rocío G. |
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Relative Histories : Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs / / Rocío G. Davis |
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Honolulu : , : University of Hawaii Press, , 2022 |
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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Asian Americans - History |
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Acknowledgments xi-- Chapter 1. Relatives and Histories !-- Chapter 2. Family Memoirs in the Context of Auto/ biographical Writing: Mediating History,-- Promoting Collective Memory 9-- Chapter 3. Representing Asian Wars and Revolutions 31-- Chapter 4. Multiple Journeys and Palimpsestic Diasporas 69-- Chapter 5. The Chinese in America: Histories and Spatial -- Positions 94-- Chapter 6. The Asian American Family Portrait -- Documentary: Multiplying Discourses 116-- Chapter 7. We're Everywhere: Asian Diasporic Transnational -- Families 140-- Notes 151-- Works Cited 163-- Index 177. |
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Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases-as Rocío G. Davis proposes for the auto/biographies of ethnic writers-crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory. Davis centers on how Asian American family memoirs expand the limits and function of life writing by reclaiming history and promoting community cohesion. She argues that identity is shaped by not only the stories we have been told, but also the stories we tell, making these narratives important examples of the ways we remember our family's past and tell our community's story. In the context of auto/biographical writing or filmmaking that explores specific ethnic experiences of diaspora, assimilation, and integration, |
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this work considers two important aspects: These texts re-imagine the past by creating a work that exists both in history and as a historical document, making the creative process a form of re-enactment of the past itself. Each chapter centers on a thematic concern germane to the Asian American experience: the narrative of twentieth-century Asian wars and revolutions, which has become the subtext of a significant number of Asian American family memoirs (Pang-Mei Natasha Chang's Bound Feet and Western Dress, May-lee and Winberg Chai's The Girl from Purple Mountain, K. Connie Kang's Home Was The Land of Morning Calm, Doung Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow); family experiences of travel and displacement within Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which unveil a history of multiple diasporas that are often elided after families immigrate to the United States (Helie Lee's Still Life With Rice, Jael Silliman's Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Mira Kamdar's Motiba's Tattoos); and the development of Chinatowns as family spaces (Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, Lisa See's On Gold Mountain, Bruce Edward Hall's Tea that Burns). The final chapter analyzes the discursive possibilities of the filmed family memoir ("family portrait documentary"), examining Lise Yasui's A Family Gathering, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury's Halving the Bones, and Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Davis concludes the work with a metaliterary engagement with the history of her own Asian diasporic family as she demonstrates the profound interconnection between forms of life writing. |
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