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The Silence - How tragedy shapes talk (Paperback)
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The Silence - How tragedy shapes talk (Paperback)
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Loot Price R266
Discovery Miles 2 660
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Silence can be a powerful form of communication. It is often the
form that communication takes in the wake of unspeakable trauma.
After a half a century, the Holocaust still dominates the homes of
survivors and their families. Memory haunts and permeates the home,
conditioning survivors' thoughts, their behaviour, their responses
to their family, their reactions to government and authority.
Applied linguist and academic Dr. Ruth Wajnryb grew up in such a
home, living the aftermath of her parents' war as they strove to
reconstruct their lives in the wake of a nightmare that could not
be talked about. Using interviews with children of survivors, "The
Silence" explores the process of communication in survivor families
from the perspective of the post-war generation. It maps the
interconnections of narrative and trauma, and lays bare the oblique
and roundabout pathways where talk fragments and disappears into
the cracks. Ruth Wajnryb retrieves the fragments and gives words,
meaning and a larger coherence to a silence suffered quietly in
countless homes. Along the way, readers learn the author's own
story and that of her generation, and understand in a broader sense
how trauma is transm
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