Of Memory And The Misplaced

Author : Sarah O'Brien
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253067898
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Memory and the Misplaced written by Sarah O'Brien and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the life writing of post-famine Irish immigrants tell us about Irish diasporic memory? Of Memory and the Misplaced considers the endurance and nature of Irish American memory across the twentieth century. Guided by 30 memoirs written between 1900 and 1970, Sarah O'Brien shows the prevalence of intimate and taboo themes in ordinary immigrants' writing, such as domestic violence, same-sex love, and famine-induced trauma. Importantly, Of Memory and the Misplaced critiques the role of the Irish landscape as a site of memory and shows how the interiority of the domestic world has provided Irish women with the language needed to reclaim their own lives. Combining literary and historical theory, Of Memory and the Misplaced highlights voices that have traditionally been silenced and offers a rare and unexplored collection of primary source autobiographical texts to better understand the experiences of Irish immigrants in the United States.

Author : Ari Kelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071034
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Misplaced Massacre written by Ari Kelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly at the 2007 opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. This site opened after a long and remarkably contentious planning process. Native Americans, Colorado ranchers, scholars, Park Service employees, and politicians alternately argued and allied with one another around the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. Ari Kelman unearths the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, as well as those who grappled with its troubling legacy, to reveal how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U.S. Civil War left enduring national scars. Combining painstaking research with storytelling worthy of a novel, A Misplaced Massacre probes the intersection of history and memory, laying bare the ways differing groups of Americans come to know a shared past.

Author : Ari Kelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067177
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Misplaced Massacre written by Ari Kelman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. Kelman examines how generations of Americans have struggled with the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized.

Author : Silvia Spitta
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292718977
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misplaced Objects written by Silvia Spitta and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When things move, things change." Starting from this deceptively simple premise, Silvia Spitta opens a fascinating window onto the profound displacements and transformations that have occurred over the six centuries since material objects and human subjects began circulating between Europe and the Americas. This extended reflection on the dynamics of misplacement starts with the European practice of collecting objects from the Americas into Wunderkammern, literally "cabinets of wonders." Stripped of all identifying contexts, these exuberant collections, including the famous Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, upset European certainties, forcing a reorganization of knowledge that gave rise to scientific inquiry and to the epistemological shift we call modernity. In contrast, cults such as that of the Virgin of Guadalupe arose out of the reverse migration from Europe to the Americas. The ultimate marker of mestizo identity in Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe is now fast crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and miracles are increasingly being reported. Misplaced Objects then concludes with the more intimate and familial collections and recollections of Cuban and Mexican American artists and writers that are contributing to the Latinization of the United States. Beautifully illustrated and radically interdisciplinary, Misplaced Objects clearly demonstrates that it is not the awed viewer, but rather the misplaced object itself that unsettles our certainties, allowing new meanings to emerge.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401205922
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes—Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.

Author : C. D. Smith
Publisher : CD Smith
ISBN 13 : 1432775367
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misplaced Clarity written by C. D. Smith and published by CD Smith. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young college graduate, living in a small town and working at an unfulfilling job, Alex Porter begins his journey of self discovery while unwittingly touching the hearts of every person he comes in contact with. His gift for drawing people together leads him to Harold Harper, an elderly man who is becoming more forgetful and confused with every passing day. With the love of his life by his side and Alexs knack for remembering things, Harold is ready to face the challenge set before him by a greedy son who is intent on sending his parents to a retirement community. Alex may have loftier career goals, but the food market where he is employed provides an epicenter that draws the characters lives together, for better or worse. This is a story about bridging the generation gap, of love, laughter, heartbreak and the strength it takes to find happiness. This story portrays how both the young and the old search for their own Misplaced Clarity.

Author : Adrian A. Hankey
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460249267
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Conflict of Self Interest written by Adrian A. Hankey and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self or Soul is an essential energy centred in every living body and is about instinct, species survival and coexistence with all other Life. It is not a belief nor any part of Brain. Brain is the natural manager of the body in which Soul exists. The natural function of Brain is to facilitate Soul-purpose throughout Life. Brain copies or creates beliefs to make everything true or real, and with memory and logic it creates time, space, knowledge and world. Educated Brain tends to deny Self and so creates a greater need for entertainment, exploration, pets and more. Civilization is run entirely by Brains. But that complex process has yet to run for more than a few hundred years without final disaster. The only peoples who have survived for millenia, have done so by depending consistently upon Self, family, home, legend, lore, wisdom, and heritage, most of which are presently being civilly disrespected and ignored. No belief of science, psychology or religion can ever explain or replace any of these. On this finite planet, population increase has become too serious to ignore. Natural increase seems due mostly to cultural stress and ageing. But serious unnatural population increase is now due to religiously enforced non-birth-control amongst poor and ignorant people. Greedy corporations and developers also encourage population expansion which will ultimately cause the collapse of people-species. For survival of people-species, the current civil process must accept a more localized, traditional and cultural Wisdom, not based upon nor necessarily denying science or religion.

Author : Buerger E. L. Buerger and K. S. Lorenz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440167818
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misplaced Mausoleum written by Buerger E. L. Buerger and K. S. Lorenz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misplaced Mausoleum tells the story of how the lives of two orphan boys later affect the lives of their grandsons. Alan Wilson, now an old man, must decide what to do about the secret in the Mausoleum. A pact with his friends was made years ago that the last survivor would decide if the secret would be revealed or sealed forever. Alan decides to tell the story to Matt, a young man, in the hope that he will understand the consequences of what will happen if the secret is revealed. Alan relates the secret to Matt in a variety of short stories written by Alan's friends to help conceal the mystery. The purpose is to protect a man every one of them loves, Papa Wilson! Papa (Edmond) Wilson is a kind, loving and gentle person of high morals and integrity. He is a financial wizard, respected by all who know him. Papa collapses in his office and is taken to the hospital. His doctor says that he is in fine health both mentally and physically but he appears to have no recollection of the previous twenty-four hours. What would cause Papa to lose his memory under such mysterious circumstances?

Author : Jack Seabrook
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879725914
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martians and Misplaced Clues written by Jack Seabrook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown (1906-1972) was a popular and respected author of more than 20 mysteries and science fiction novels (The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the 1948 Edgar Award for best mystery novel). This study looks closely at his work and chronicles his unusual life. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Brian H. Bornstein
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739192191
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Myths about Memory written by Brian H. Bornstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Popular Myths about Memory, Brian H. Bornstein confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, communication studies, and sociology.