Border Crossings: Essays in Identity and Belonging

Author:   Paul Arthur ,  Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138671096


Pages:   154
Publication Date:   11 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life-writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the USA. The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge and stories from generation to generation frequently requires crossing into the private, contested spaces of memory. The most secret accounts or guarded remnants of information can sometimes lead to the most profound insights. In this context, there is a delicate balance between life writing’s role in revealing lives and the desire to be respectful towards them. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history—whether relating to family, community, nation, ancestry, or political allegiance—and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Author:   Paul Arthur ,  Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138671096


ISBN 10:   1138671096
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   11 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Thresholds of the Private 1. Family Memoir and Self-Discovery 2. Voices in Movement: Feminist Family Stories in Oral History and Sound Art 3. The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain 4. The Odyssey Quilts: Narrative Artworks of Childhood, War and Migration 5. Is Autobiographical Writing a Historical Document?: The Impact of Self-Censorship on Life Narratives 6. Material Memory and the Digital 7. Because it’s Your Country: Death and its Meanings in West Arnhem Land 8. ‘from Organic Arts’: Tsamorita, Rosaries, and the Poem of My Grandma’s Life

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Paul Longley Arthur is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He has published widely in cultural and communication studies, biography, history and literature, and is the author of Virtual Voyages: Travel Writing and the Antipodes, 1605–1837 (2010). Recent edited volumes include International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context (2013), Framing Lives (2014), and Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity (2018). Leena Kurvet-Käosaar is Associate Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia, as well as a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum and also the leader of the research group on migration and diaspora studies of the Center of Excellence of Estonian Studies at the Estonian Literary Museum. She has published widely in life-writing studies, specialising in particular on Post-Soviet life writing, personal narratives of Soviet deportations and the Gulag, and trauma studies.

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