Rebuilding Shattered Worlds

Creating Community by Voicing the Past

A. Lynn Smith, Anna Eisenstein (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2016
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9780803290587 (ISBN)

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Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly interlocutors attempt to make sense of the world they lost when urban renewal initiatives razed “Syrian Town”-a densely packed neighborhood of Lebanese American, Italian American, and African American residents.

This ethnography of remembering shows how former residents engage collective memory-making through their shared place, language, and class position within the larger cityscape. Demonstrating the creative power of linguistic resources, material traces, and absent spaces, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds brings together insights from linguistic anthropology and material studies, foregrounding the role language plays in signaling “pastness.”

Andrea L. Smith is a professor of anthropology at Lafayette College, the author of Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France, and the editor of Europe’s Invisible Migrants: Consequences of the Colonists’ Return. Anna Eisenstein is a doctoral candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Virginia.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Terminology and Transcription Conventions

1. Ethnography of the Expelled

2. The Language of Blight

3. Narrating Diversity

4. Voices from the Past

5. The Material of Memory

6. Nostalgia as Engine of Change

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Contemporary North America
Zusatzinfo	13 photographs, 4 illustrations, 4 maps, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780803290587 / 9780803290587
Zustand	Neuware