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Synopsis
The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada beginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public through the sensationalist images of them as nude protestors, anarchists, and religious fanatics - representations largely propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In Negotiated Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which autobiographical strategies have been employed by the Doukhobors themselves in order to retell and reclaim their own history.
Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports, prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both "classic" and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations. More than a historical work, this book brings together recent theories concerning subjectivity, autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor autobiographical discourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations for identity and collective survival that are sometimes successful and sometimes not.
An innovative study, Negotiated Memory will appeal to those interested in autobiography studies as well as to historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian cultural studies.
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Using aspects of cultural studies and autobiography studies, this book examines how the Doukhobors of Canada employed standard and alternative forms of autobiography to create and sustain their own subjectivity and identity.
About the Author
Julie Rak is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.
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- PublisherUBC Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0774810319
- ISBN 13 9780774810319
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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