Mining Memory: Reimagining Self and Nation through Narratives of Childhood in Peru

by Mary Beth Tierney-Tello

Book Overview

Mining Memory examines how twentieth-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution. The book shows that beyond representing the struggles of individual subjects, narratives of childhood are part of a process of constructing and reconstructing cultural identity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611487730
• ISBN13: 9781611487732
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"