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Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (The Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize in Women's Studies)
By Robin Ruth Linden
"Making Stories, Making Selves" was published by Ohio State Univ Pr (Txt) in December 1992, it has 191 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Making Stories, Making Selves” Metadata:
- Title: Making Stories, Making Selves
- Author: Robin Ruth Linden
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 191
- Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr (Txt)
- Publish Date: December 1992
“Making Stories, Making Selves” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Cultural assimilation - Ethnic relations - Holocaust survivors - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence - Interviews - Jewish women - Jewish women in the Holocaust - Jews - Survivants de l'Holocauste - Relations interethniques - Juives - Acculturation - Juifs - Holocauste, 1939-1945 - Entretiens - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
- Places: United States - États-Unis
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL11352526M - OL4293032W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 26012903
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 92020410
- ISBN-13: 9780814205839
- ISBN-10: 0814205836
- All ISBNs: 0814205836 - 9780814205839
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"Making Stories, Making Selves" Description:
The Open Library:
Ruth Linden's bold, experimental book explores the interconnected processes of remembering, storytelling, and self-fashioning. Juxtaposing autobiography and ethnography, Linden begins this study by situating herself in the context of her assimilated Jewish family, where the Holocaust was shrouded in silences. Urged forward by these silences, Linden, a feminist and sociologist, began to interview Jewish Holocaust survivors in 1983. As Linden interprets survivors' accounts of the death camps and the resistance, she reveals complex ways in which selves are constructed through storytelling. The stories that unfold are continuously fashioned and refashioned - never stripped of context or frozen in time. What emerges is an unexpectedly elegant montage in which interviewee, interviewer, and author are intertwined. Linden's meetings with survivors and her encounters with their stories transformed her as a feminist, a Jew, and a social scientist. Her analysis reveals the intimate connections between an ethnographer's lived experience and her interpretations of others'. Linden's reflections on the process of ethnography belie the rhetoric of positivism in the social sciences. They will inspire other scholars to break free of research and writing practices in their own disciplines that efface the ineluctable bond between knower and known. All readers will be challenged to reexamine the Holocaust in an intensely personal light and to reconsider the meanings of survival in our own time. Cutting across the boundaries of ethnography and autobiography to create a new kind of text, Making Stories, Making Selves offers a significant contribution to interpretive social science and the literature of the Holocaust. Linden's original and courageous work is vital reading for Holocaust scholars, students of modern Jewish life sociologists feminist theorists, and all readers seeking to understand their own relationship to the Holocaust.
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