Inside the Parrot Cage: Dialogues and Reflections on History, Trauma and Memory - Brossura

Wever-Rabehl, Gerda

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0595331394 ISBN 13: 9780595331390

Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2004

Riassunto

Inside the Parrot Cage begins with the stories Joachim tells Jean as his life nears its end. His earliest memory is that of playing and getting trapped inside a parrot cage at his aunt's hotel. This early confinement forms a powerful metaphor for his life of imprisonment, isolation and displacement. Sent into the war at the age of sixteen in a desperate attempt by the Germans to avoid defeat, Joachim quickly thereafter ended up in a Soviet camp for four years. Upon return in 1948, three years after his home and home-town had been invaded and handed over to Poland, he was officially a 'DP', a displaced person. Ending up in North-America many years later was no salvation. Though he was a child at the time with little choice but to become a soldier in the German army, people saw him as a 'nazi', a criminal. Joachim's narrations center around his ceaseless alienation, his lost humanity and the way in which the deliberate cruelty of the Soviet Gulag found a future. Yet in the process of chronicling these painful narrations, Jean and Joachim meet as equals. And in this egalitarian position, humanity can be restored.

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L'autore

Gerda Wever-Rabehl completed her Ph.D. degree in British Columbia, Canada where she currently resides. She has published extensively in the areas of philosophy and philosophy of education, and worked for various educational institutions. Additionally, she has been a visiting scholar to several South Asian institutions.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: iUniverse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0595331394
• ISBN 13: 9780595331390
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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