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

Wever-Rabehl, Gerda

 
9780595331390: Inside the Parrot Cage: Dialogues and Reflections on History, Trauma and Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595331394 ISBN 13 : 9780595331390
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595331394
ISBN 13 
9780595331390
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
112
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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