02249nam 2200517Ia 450 991017223880332120200520144314.01-134-71488-21-280-31853-80-203-44501-5(CKB)1000000000255439(EBL)166961(OCoLC)437076296(SSID)ssj0000257403(PQKBManifestationID)11215213(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257403(PQKBWorkID)10253657(PQKB)10699945(MiAaPQ)EBC166961(EXLCZ)99100000000025543919970320d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe testimony of lives narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia /Vieda SkultansLondon ;New York Routledge19981 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-16289-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXIn 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.LatviaHistory20th centuryLatviaHistory1940-1991BiographyLatviaBiography947.96/085Skultans Vieda897074MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172238803321The testimony of lives4202572UNINA