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The constructed Mennonite : history, memory, and the Second World War / / Hans Werner



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Autore: Werner Hans <1952-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The constructed Mennonite : history, memory, and the Second World War / / Hans Werner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manitoba, Canada : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2013
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 pages)
Disciplina: 289.7092
Soggetto topico: Autobiographical memory
Ex-prisoners of war - Manitoba
Mennonites - Manitoba
Mennonites - Russia (Federation) - Siberia
Storytellers - Manitoba
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 - Influence
Soggetto non controllato: Germany
Manitoba
Mennonite
Russia
Second World War
WWI
World War II
history
immigration
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Part 1 Siberia. 1 Beginnings ; 2 Difficult Years ; 3 Ivan, Stalin's Hope ; 4 The Mist Clears __ Part 2 War. 5 War Stories ; 6 Johann: Becoming a German ; 7 The Fog of War ; 8 The 401 ; 9 The Collapse -- Part 3 Becoming Normal. 10 New Beginnings ; 11 Margarethe (Sara) Vogt (Letkeman) ; 12 The Immigrants ; 13 Memories, Stories, and History -- Appendix: Family Trees -- Glossary Notes.
Sommario/riassunto: John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler's German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Titolo autorizzato: The constructed Mennonite  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-88755-436-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786208403321
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