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Item Details
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IN A STATE OF MEMORY
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| By: |
Tununa Mercado, Jean Franco, Dr. Peter Kahn (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803231571 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803231573 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2001 |
| Series: |
Latin American Women Writers |
| Pages: |
156 |
| Translated from: |
Spanish |
| Description: |
A memoir about exile, displacement, and return. It explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity, the difficulties of incorporating herself into a host culture, her physical illness, and the haunting memories of her past and the loved ones she left behind. |
| Synopsis: |
Nothing could be more anodyne and stupid than to say: 'the exiles had it good,' this trivial remark, as a sort of excuse, is all too often passively accepted, like its counterpart of the same suit: 'those who stayed in Argentina had it worse. "In a State of Memory" is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity, the difficulties of incorporating herself into a host culture, her physical illness, and the haunting memories of her past and the loved ones she left behind. In exile the narrator is constantly confronted with the vicariousness of her experiences - she wears secondhand clothes, buys secondhand furniture, and experiences other people's lives at second hand. After periods of exile in France and Mexico, she returns to Buenos Aires and finds it difficult to recognize the city, to attach memories to particular places.Through flashbacks, recollections, and short narratives, this story powerfully communicates an individual's experience of exile from an emotional and psychological perspective while at the same time linking the individual experience to the collective one. A well-known writer throughout Latin America and beyond, Tununa Mercado is a champion of literary style. Cautious, precise, and attentive to the rhythms of prose, her measured style is her hallmark. She lives in Buenos Aires. "In a State of Memory" is the first book-length English translation of Mercado's work. Peter Kahn is an English teacher and translator who lives in Buenos Aires. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
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Non-returnable |
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