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Documenting Impossible Realities : Ethnography, Memory, and the As If /

"Explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations, and asks what image of reality appears if the 'real' is engaged through its approximations-the child in...

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Main Authors: Coutin, Susan Bibler (Author), Yngvesson, Barbara, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations, and asks what image of reality appears if the 'real' is engaged through its approximations-the child in an adoptive family; the undocumented forced to as legal citizens; politically disappeared persons known only through their material remains?"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages): illustrations (black and white) ;
ISBN:9781501768866