Exiled Memories

Author : Zohreh Sullivan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439906416
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled Memories written by Zohreh Sullivan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility." These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again in this powerful portrayal of loss and survival. Impelled by these word and her own concerns about nationality and identity, Zohreh Sullivan has gathered together here the voices of sixty exiles and emigres. The speakers come from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and range in age from thirteen to eighty-eight. Although most are from the middle class, they work in a variety of occupations in the United States. But whatever their differences, here they engage in remembering the past, producing a discourse about their lives, and negotiating the troubled transitions from one culture to another. Unlike man other Iranian oral history projects, Exiled Memories looks at the reconstruction of memory and identity through diasporic narratives, through a focus on the Americas rather than on Iran. The narratives included here reveal the complex ways in which events and places transform identities, how overnight radical s become conservatives, friends become enemies, the strong become weak. Indeed, the narratives themselves serve this function -- serving to transfer or transform power and establish credibility. They reveal a diverse group of people in the process of knitting the story of themselves with the story of the collective after it has been torn apart.

Author : Isabel Alvarez-Borland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918136
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban-American Literature of Exile written by Isabel Alvarez-Borland and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.

Author : Pablo Medina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled Memories written by Pablo Medina and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cuban poet and exile's recollections of his first twelve years (1948-1960) growing up in prerevolutionary Cuba.

Author : Michael J. Bustamante
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662043
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Memory Wars written by Michael J. Bustamante and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story. Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.

Author : Johannes Mueller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315918
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt written by Johannes Mueller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Johannes Müller shows how early modern Netherlandish migrants and their descendants commemorated war and persecution and cultivated new religious and political identities in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany.

Author : Pablo Medina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled Memories written by Pablo Medina and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cuban poet and exile's recollections of his first twelve years (1948-1960) growing up in prerevolutionary Cuba.

Author : Njelle W. Hamilton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813596599
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phonographic Memories written by Njelle W. Hamilton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization.

Author : Ayāzu Gulu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789699962950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Exiled Memories written by Ayāzu Gulu and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439143706
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile written by David Rieff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century. David Rieff has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrants, and what it means to become an American in the late twentieth century.

Author : Kendall Johnson
Publisher : Hunter House
ISBN 13 : 9780897934749
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Storm written by Kendall Johnson and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in the "New Age of Anxiety." Today we are all challenged by global warming, terrorism, job loss, and economic uncertainty. This stress lowers our resilience and we feel vulnerable. When personal crises and disasters get added to the mix the results can be traumatic. How do we cope? What actions can we take to best respond? How do we help our children, or the children in our care? How can we reestablish meaning in our lives? Using strategies learned and developed during 18 years on the frontlines, Dr. Johnson shows people how to manage their emotional reactions in an emergency, stabilize those around them, and gradually work through the lasting effects of crisis.