Vieda Skultans: 1 book
The Testimony of Lives
Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Vieda Skultans left Latvia as a refugee at the age of six months. In 1990, she returned for the first time. This text is both a personal account of a homecoming and an anthropology of a people trying to come to terms with its past and to face an uncertain future. Based on more than 100 interviews...
