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Author | : Rocio G. Davis |
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Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases-as Rocío G. Davis proposes for the auto/biographies of ethnic writers-crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory. Davis centers on how Asian American family memoirs expand the limits and function of life writing by reclaiming history and promoting community cohesion. She argues that identity is shaped by not only the stories we have been told, but also the stories we tell, making these narratives important examples of the ways we remember our family's past and tell our community's story. In the context of auto/biographical writing or filmmaking that explores specific ethnic experiences of diaspora, assimilation, and integration, this work considers two important aspects: These texts re-imagine the past by creating a work that exists both in history and as a historical document, making the creative process a form of re-enactment of the past itself. Each chapter centers on a thematic concern germane to the Asian American experience: the narrative of twentieth-century Asian wars and revolutions, which has become the subtext of a significant number of Asian American family memoirs (Pang-Mei Natasha Chang's Bound Feet and Western Dress, May-lee and Winberg Chai's The Girl from Purple Mountain, K. Connie Kang's Home Was The Land of Morning Calm, Doung Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow); family experiences of travel and displacement within Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which unveil a history of multiple diasporas that are often elided after families immigrate to the United States (Helie Lee's Still Life With Rice, Jael Silliman's Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Mira Kamdar's Motiba's Tattoos); and the development of Chinatowns as family spaces (Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, Lisa See's On Gold Mountain, Bruce Edward Hall's Tea that Burns). The final chapter analyzes the discursive possibilities of the filmed family memoir ("family portrait documentary"), examining Lise Yasui's A Family Gathering, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury's Halving the Bones, and Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Davis concludes the work with a metaliterary engagement with the history of her own Asian diasporic family as she demonstrates the profound interconnection between forms of life writing.
Author | : Edward Elbridge Salisbury |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Archibald McCurdy was born in 1684 in Scotland. He migrated to Antrim Ireland. In 1737 he immigrated to America with his family. He died 8 February 1776. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York.
Author | : Camille T. Dungy |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393253767 |
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Colorado Book Award As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.
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Total Pages | : 592 |
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Download A Collection of Original Papers relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay. [By Thomas Hutchinson.] MS. notes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan |
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Total Pages | : 1162 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : John Waddell Van Sickle |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Ferdinandus Van Sycklin (ca. 1635-ca. 1712) emigrated from Holland, Netherlands to Kings County, Long Island, New York in 1652. He married Eva Antonis Jansen about 1660, and settled as pioneers on Long Island. Descendants (chiefly spelling surname Van Sicklen or or Van Sickle) and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elsewhere.
Author | : William George Maton |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1797 |
Genre | : England |
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Download Observations Relative Chiefly to the Natural History, Picturesque Scenery, and Antiquities, of the Western Counties of England, Made in the Years 1794 and 1796 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Charles Frost |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Hull (England) |
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Author | : Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan |
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Download Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York: Holland documents. 1856-58. v. 3-8, London documents. 1853-57. v. 9-10, Paris documents. 1855-58 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William HELME |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1815 |
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Download Curious miscellaneous Fragments on various subjects, more particularly relative to English History, from the year 1050 to the year 1701, compiled from British Writers during that period, by W. H. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle