ISBN:
9780710312235
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Connecting Histories
DDC:
305.8924042
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; CONNECTING HISTORIES: A Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 An Introduction to Historical and Ethnic Memory in Life History: African-Caribbean and Jewish Autobiography and Oral History; I Paradoxes of Migration: Myths of Migration in Jewish, African and African-Caribbean Narrative: the Mother Country and the Promised Land; Introduction; 2 Myths, Silence and Autobiographical Contexts: The Autobiographical Memory of Ernest Marke and Maurice Levinson
Description / Table of Contents:
3 The Self-Knowing Autobiographical Voice, Meta-Memory and the Deconstruction of Myths: Linda Grant, Floella Benjamin, Wallace Collins and Louis TeemanII 'By the Waters of Babylon': Blacks, Jews and Diasporic Consciousness in the Autobiographical Act; Introduction; 4 Theorisations of the Diaspora: Race, Identity, and Historical Memory; 5 Memories of 'Dwelling' and Migration: Britain and the Diaspora in Travel and Migration Narratives; III Hidden Histories, Collective Memory, Remembering and Forgetting in Black and Jewish Ethnic Memory; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Re-remembering and Forgetting Histories: Memories of Racist Riots in Britain7 Mythology and History: Memories of Comparative Histories, Black and Jewish Identity and Inter-Ethnic Relations; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
