Negotiated Memory

Julie Rak is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Beyond Auto-Bio-Graphe: Autobiography and Alternative Identities2 Doukhobor Beliefs and Historical Moments3 Vechnaiia Pamit in the Diaspora: Community Meanings of History and Migration4 Negotiating Identity: Doukhobor Oral Narratives5 Witness, Negotiation, Performance: Freedomite AutobiographyConclusion: Negotiating the "I" and "We" in AutobiographyNotesReferencesIndex

What Rak has written is a serious and worthwhile addition to our understanding of the way a marginalized people struggles, against all those social currents that would silence them, to find and honour a collective autobiographical voice. - Myler Wilkinson, Selkirk College (BC Studies, Spring 2005) In her methodologically ground-breaking book, Negotiated Memory, Julie Rak uses autobiographical discourse (as opposed to autobiographical genre), cultural context, and historical narrative to theorize about the relationships among the meanings of identity, place and nation…However, the book is much more than an innovative use of autobiographical discourse as a post-colonial tool useful in studying powerless groups. Negotiated Memory is also a rich cultural history of the migration and adaptation experiences of an often misunderstood religious group. - Susan W. Hardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon (American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2005) This will be a useful and informative text for students of Canadian studies, as well as those interested in critical autobiography and identity theory ... Rak does a very good job of navigating the complex topography of Doukhobor autobiographical discourse within the Canadian historical landscape. - Vicki S. Hallett (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, Winter 2006)