The Enduring Memory
Author | : Françoise Zonabend |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780719018398 |
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Author | : Françoise Zonabend |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780719018398 |
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Author | : National Sculpture Society |
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Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258443078 |
Author | : Gary W. Gallagher |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807174076 |
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
Author | : National Sculpture Society (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Michael Van Wagenen |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 155849930X |
This title addresses the deeper questions of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has influenced the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends.
Author | : Edwidge Danticat |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616955023 |
The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.
Author | : Roger C. Aden |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Child development |
ISBN | : 9781433147739 |
Childhood Memory Spaces explores the places adults remember from their childhood.
Author | : Kendall Heitzman |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826522572 |
Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920–2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Shōwa period (1926–89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, when he spent most of an academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley's Roots into Japanese. For a long period, Yasuoka was at the center of the Japanese literary establishment, serving on prize committees and winning the major literary prizes of the era: the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Yomiuri, and the Kawabata. But what makes Yasuoka fascinating as a writer is the way that he consciously, deliberately resisted accepted narratives of modern Japanese history through his approach to personal and collective memory. In Enduring Postwar, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.
Author | : Emily Yellin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2009-03-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1416594574 |
Journalist Emily Yellin pens a lively narrative exploring the very human stories behind the often-inhuman face of call-center customer service. Whether it’s the interminable hold times, the multitude of buttons to press, or the automated voices before reaching someone with a measurable pulse—who hasn’t felt exasperated at the abuse, neglect, and wasted time when all we want is help, and maybe a little human kindness? Your Call Is (not that) Important to Us is journalist Emily Yellin’s highly entertaining and far-reaching exploration of the multibillion-dollar customer service industry and its surprising inner-workings. Since customer service has a role in just about every industry on earth, Yellin travels the country and the world, meeting a wide range of customer service reps, corporate decision makers, industry watchers, and Internet-based consumer activists. She shows the myriad forces that converge to create these aggravating experiences and the people inside and outside the globalized corporate world crusading to make customer service better for us all. For the first time, Yellin gets reveals the heart behind the never-seen faces of call-center customer service—and why customer service doesn’t have to be this bad.