The Wars We Inherit

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ISBN: 9781592139613 | 1592139612
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/28/2010

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By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author's own family.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Frank and Sally	p. 11
The Hole Things Fall Into	p. 27
Forgetting and Re-membering	p. 35
On the Event without a Witness	p. 45
Re-membering II	p. 51
On Bearing Witness	p. 61
If I Should Die before I Wake	p. 71
On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing	p. 83
The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret	p. 87
The Uncanny Return	p. 93
The Pasts We Repeat II: Jenny	p. 95
If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak?	p. 105
The Work of War	p. 119
On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes	p. 141
Toward Re-membering a Future	p. 155
The Work of Love	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 179
References	p. 191
Web Sites	p. 195
Index	p. 197
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