Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the as If

by Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson

Book Overview

Documenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an "above ground" inhabited by dominant groups and an "underground" to which unauthorized immigrants,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501768883
• ISBN13: 9781501768880
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher