Border Crossings - Essays in Identity and Belonging (Hardcover)

The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life-writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the USA. The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge and stories from generation to generation frequently requires crossing into the private, contested spaces of memory. The most secret accounts or guarded remnants of information can sometimes lead to the most profound insights. In this context, there is a delicate balance between life writing's role in revealing lives and the desire to be respectful towards them. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history-whether relating to family, community, nation, ancestry, or political allegiance-and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Life Writing
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2016
Editors:	Paul Arthur • Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-67109-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	1-138-67109-6
Barcode:	9781138671096

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