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Julie Rak - Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse - 9780774810302 - V9780774810302
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Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse

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Description for Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 184 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBC; BGA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 363.

The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada beginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public through the sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, and religious fanatics – representations largely propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiating Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which autobiographical strategies have been employed by the Doukhobors themselves in order to retell and reclaim their own history.

Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports, prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about ... Read more

An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will appeal to those interested in autobiography studies as well as to historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian cultural studies.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774810302
SKU
V9780774810302
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Julie Rak
Julie Rak is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.

Reviews for Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
What Rak has written is a serious and worthwhile addition to our understanding of the way a marginalized people struggles, against all those social currents that would silence them, to find and honour a collective autobiographical voice.
Myler Wilkinson, Selkirk College
BC Studies, Spring 2005
In her methodologically ground-breaking book, Negotiated Memory, Julie Rak uses autobiographical discourse ... Read more

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