| Present Past Contributor(s): Schieber, Ava Kadishson (Author), Cohen, Danny M. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0810133792 ISBN-13: 9780810133792 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2016007595 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Present Past is a collection of stories, artwork, and poetry by Ava Kadishson Schieber. Like her debut work, Soundless Roar, this multi-genre collection creates rich and varied pathways for readers to approach Schieber as well as the absorbing events and transformations in her life as a Holocaust survivor. The focus of Present Past is her life after the Shoah. Rejecting stereotypes of survivors as traumatized or broken, Schieber is stark yet exuberant, formidable yet nuanced. The woman who emerges in Schieber's Present Past is a multifaceted, heterogeneous figure--poet, artist, and survivor. In it, she plays the passionate observer who dispassionately curates the kaleidoscopic memories of her tumultuous personal and professional life in Belgrade, Prague, Tel Aviv, New York, and Chicago. Organized into thirteen chapters, each a blend of images, poems, and narrative, this moving new work offers myriad points of entry to readers of these genres, those fascinated in the relationship between the Holocaust and art, as well as readers interested in memory and survivorship. |