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by Vieda Skultans
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The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in post The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in postSoviet Latvia 1st Edition by Vieda Skultans Author › Visit Amazons Vieda Skultans Page Find all the books read about the author and more See search results for this author Are you an author The Testimony of Lives Narrative and Memory in Post In 1944 Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a six monthold refugee In 1990 she returned for the first time This remarkable 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 The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in post If you are concerned to tell the Latvian story surely you would put it at the beginning So this is a book which falls between the cracks so to speak For a purely personal narrative which may give you some deeper feeling for the Latvian story you could do much worse than read “A Woman in Amber” by Agate Nesaule The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in post Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months In 1990 she returned for the first time This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future ORDER IN NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE The Testimony of Lives The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in postSoviet Latvia The Testimony of Lives Narrative and memory in postSoviet Latvia By Vieda Skultans Edition 1st Edition First Published 1998 eBook Published 1 November 2002 Pub location London Imprint Routledge THE EXPROPRIATION OF BIOGRAPHY The Testimony of Lives In the process of this narrative construction the self aligns itself with various dimensions of history and society Narrative is thus ‘not an optional extra’ ibid p47 it is the only way open to us for endowing our lives with meaning Narrative displays the diverse ways of constructing identity The testimony of lives narrative and memory in post Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months In 1990 she returned for the first time This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future Vieda Skultans The Testimony of Lives Narrative and The Testimony of Lives N a r r a t i v e a n d Memory in PostSoviet Latvia London and N e w York Routledge 1997 xxxii 217 pp 7500 cloth 2495 paper Vieda Skultans was six months old when she left Latvia for England with her mother and grandmother
