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

• Autore: Skultans Vieda
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.96/085
• Soggetto geografico: Latvia History 20th century; Latvia History 1940-1991 Biography; Latvia Biography
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The testimony of lives
• ISBN: 1-134-71488-2; 1-280-31853-8; 0-203-44501-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172238803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II