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No Return Address : A Memoir of Displacement / Anca Vlasopolos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 14 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231121309
  • 9780231500449
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.049240498092 973/.049240498/092
LOC classification:
  • PE64.V57 A3 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- ONE: Mouthfuls -- TWO: Gatekeepers -- THREE: Out of the Mouth -- FOUR: The Vocabulary of Faith -- FIVE: Mud Miracles -- SIX: To Eat or Not to Eat -- SEVEN: Bucharest -- EIGHT: Contingencies -- NINE: Telling Tales -- TEN: Growing Boys -- ELEVEN: Paris -- TWELVE: Brussels -- THIRTEEN: Walls -- FOURTEEN: Frankfurt Passage -- FIFTEEN: Misplacing Detroit -- SIXTEEN: Where All the Lights Were Bright -- SEVENTEEN: Variations on the Pastoral -- EIGHTEEN: Sub-Urban Skies -- NINETEEN: Endings, Continuities -- TWENTY: Returns
Summary: No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions. In recounting her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States, Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world—the hyphenated, ambiguous identities; the purgatory in which immigrants await transfer to another country; the mysterious nostalgia for places and events dimly recalled. Throughout, she describes the constant search for a place to truly call home.Vlasopolos renders a clear and loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl by herself after the death of her husband, a political dissident. She details their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and of settlement in Detroit, Michigan, as well as her ultimate decision to identify the United States as home, inspired by the strong multicultural quality that allows so many others to do the same.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- ONE: Mouthfuls -- TWO: Gatekeepers -- THREE: Out of the Mouth -- FOUR: The Vocabulary of Faith -- FIVE: Mud Miracles -- SIX: To Eat or Not to Eat -- SEVEN: Bucharest -- EIGHT: Contingencies -- NINE: Telling Tales -- TEN: Growing Boys -- ELEVEN: Paris -- TWELVE: Brussels -- THIRTEEN: Walls -- FOURTEEN: Frankfurt Passage -- FIFTEEN: Misplacing Detroit -- SIXTEEN: Where All the Lights Were Bright -- SEVENTEEN: Variations on the Pastoral -- EIGHTEEN: Sub-Urban Skies -- NINETEEN: Endings, Continuities -- TWENTY: Returns

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No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions. In recounting her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States, Anca Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world—the hyphenated, ambiguous identities; the purgatory in which immigrants await transfer to another country; the mysterious nostalgia for places and events dimly recalled. Throughout, she describes the constant search for a place to truly call home.Vlasopolos renders a clear and loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl by herself after the death of her husband, a political dissident. She details their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and of settlement in Detroit, Michigan, as well as her ultimate decision to identify the United States as home, inspired by the strong multicultural quality that allows so many others to do the same.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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