Sean Akerman

Words and Wounds

Narratives of Exile

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted with Tibetan exiles in New York City, and supplemented with archival research from other exiles around the world, Akerman investigates how narrative approaches can reveal what it's like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomescontested within displaced groups, and how personal stories can impact on political realities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190851712
• ISBN-10: 0190851716
• Artikelnr.: 55313741

Autorenporträt

Sean Akerman is a poet, novelist, and writer of non-fiction. He earned his PhD in psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and he has held faculty appointments at Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Bennington College. His other books include: the novel, Outposts (Threekookaburras); the novella, Krakow (Harvard Square Editions); and the poetry collection, The Magnitudes (Main Street Rag Publications). He lives in the North Woods near Lake Superior's south shore, where he is a research associate at the Center for Rural Communities at Northland College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Narrative Complexity of History
Chapter 2: The Shape of Narrative Identity in Exile
Chapter 3: Personal Narratives and the Creation of a Political Voice
Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Narrative Work
Chapter 5: Ethical and Interpretive Stances in Narrative Work
Chapter 6: Reflections
Epilogue