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NEGOTIATED MEMORY
DOUKHOBOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE |
| By: |
Julie Rak |
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Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774810319 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774810319 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2005 |
| Pages: |
172 |
| Description: |
This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both "classic" and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations. |
| Synopsis: |
The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canadabeginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public throughthe sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, andreligious fanatics -- representations largely propagated by governmentcommissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiating Memory,Julie Rak examines the ways in which autobiographical strategies havebeen employed by the Doukhobors themselves in order to retell andreclaim their own history.Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports,prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhoborsemployed both "classic" and alternative forms ofautobiography to communicate their views about communal living,vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass ontraditions to successive generations. More than a historical work, thisbook brings together recent theories concerning subjectivity,autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor autobiographicaldiscourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations for identity andcollective survival that are sometimes successful and sometimesnot.An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal tothose interested in autobiography studies as well as to historians,literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian culturalstudies. |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Raymond Klibansky Prize, Canadian Federation for the |
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