Rebuilding shattered worlds : creating community by voicing the past /

Rebuilding shattered worlds : creating community by voicing the past /

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Author / Creator:	Smith, Andrea L., author.
Imprint:	Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Description:	xiii, 190 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropology of contemporary North America Anthropology of contemporary North America.
Subject:	Anthropological linguistics. Collective memory. Ethnic relations. Social conditions. Urban renewal -- Social aspects. Collective memory -- Pennsylvania -- Easton (Northampton County) Anthropological linguistics -- Pennsylvania -- Easton (Northampton County) Urban renewal -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Easton (Northampton County) Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) -- Ethnic relations. Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) -- Social conditions. Pennsylvania -- Easton (Northampton County)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10874313

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Other authors / contributors:	Eisenstein, Anna, author.
ISBN:	9780803290587 0803290586 9780803299436 9780803299443 9780803299450
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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.""-- "An ethnography of the ways displaced residents remember the ethnic diversity of their neighborhood in a small city in eastern Pennsylvania destroyed in the name of urban renewal, where memories, linguistic patterns, and material artifacts continue to animate people's everyday lives"--

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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." <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
Physical Description:	xiii, 190 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780803290587 0803290586 9780803299436 9780803299443 9780803299450