| A Man Comes from Someplace: Stories, History, Memory from a Lost Time. Second Edition Contributor(s): Summerfield (Author) |
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ISBN: 900437096X ISBN-13: 9789004370968 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.20 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Man Comes from Someplace is a story of a lost world, a story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. As cultural study, the narrative draws upon the oral stories of the author's father, family letters, eyewitness accounts, immigration papers, etc., and cultural research. The narrative becomes a transformative space to re-present story as performance, a meta-narrative, and an auto-ethnography for the author to reflect upon the effects of the stories on her own life, as daughter of a survivor, and as teacher/scholar. Summerfield raises questions about immigration, survival, resilience, place and identity, how story functions as antidote to trauma, a means of making sense of the world, and as resistance, the refusal to be silenced or erased, the insistence we know the past and remember those who came before. In 2011, she found her way back to the place her family came from in Ukraine. The book is now being read by students in their ESL classes in Novokoonstantinov, Ukraine. |