Author: Helena Grice

Cites

• Vera Shwartz (1)
  • IN: Asia American Fiction, History and Life Writing (2009) American Fiction, Asian Americans in Literature, Autobiographical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: At home, historical memory is an all pervading authority. It is synonymous with the native cultural tradition. Abroad, memory becomes an opportunity-however danger ridden-for a new kind of self-becoming that benefits from forcible distance.
    FROM: Threshold: A Dance Theater of Remembering and Forgetting, (1991), Essay, Romania
• Long. Jeffrey E. (1)
  • IN: Asia American Fiction, History and Life Writing (2009) American Fiction, Asian Americans in Literature, Autobiographical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Memoirs are perhaps the ultimate form of immersion journalism.
    FROM: Remembered Childhoods, (2007), Book, US
• Janice Haaken (1)
  • IN: Asia American Fiction, History and Life Writing (2009) American Fiction, Asian Americans in Literature, Autobiographical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In a society where values are unstable and in flux, autobiographical memory may be felt to be a "text" that is incontrovertibly knowable and claimable.
    FROM: Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back, (1998), Book, US
• Rocio G. Davis (1)
  • IN: Asia American Fiction, History and Life Writing (2009) American Fiction, Asian Americans in Literature, Autobiographical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Specific events in Asian history of the twentieth century have acquired important visibility in the American collective consciousness... the number of biographical, autobiographical, and fictional texts and movies on these events has heightened their prominence on the American scene, leading us, once more, to appreciate the cultural work they enact in the process of raising awareness of history and inviting comprehension towards the persons who have become dislocated as a result of that history.
    FROM: Begin Here, (2007), Book, Philippines