ABSTRACT
First published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study and literature on subjects that were previously seen as the exclusive domain of the social sciences. Connecting Histories is an important contribution to this trend. While using sociological and anthropological theories, its is an innovative historical and comparative assessment of ethnic identities and memories. Romain focuses on Afro-Caribbean and Jewish individuals and groups, investigating the ways in which 'communities' remember their experiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|44 pages
An Introduction to Historical and Ethnic Memory in Life History
part |63 pages
Paradoxes of Migration
chapter 2|23 pages
Myths, Silence and Autobiographical Contexts
chapter 3|25 pages
The Self-Knowing Autobiographical Voice, Meta-Memory and the Deconstruction of Myths
part |58 pages
‘By the Waters of Babylon'
chapter 5|30 pages
Memories of ‘Dwelling' and Migration
part |73 pages
Hidden Histories, Collective Memory, Remembering and Forgetting in Black and Jewish Ethnic Memory