Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through
blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto
Adige—the region where family's ancestral alpine village is
found. Far more than a map hanging above the family television, the
image featured colors and lines that held in place the memories and
values fueling the Povinelli family's fraught relationships with
the village and with each other. In her graphic memoir The
Inheritance, Povinelli explores the events, traumas, and powers
that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and
futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents' flight from
their village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of
their knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own
Catholic childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s
and 1970s, Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence,
dislocation, racism and structural inequality that have shaped not
only her life but the American story. Plumbing the messy
relationships among nationality, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and
belonging, The Inheritance takes us into the gulf between the facts
of history and the stories we tell ourselves to survive and justify
them.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
|
| Dimensions: |
255 x 180 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1403-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4780-1403-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781478014034 |
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