Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.
Basque Women's Stories, Constructing Meaning from Memory
Edited by Larraitz Ariznabarreta and Nere Lete
ISBN: 9781949805338
Pub Date: 22 November 2021
Format: Paperback
300 Pages
Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories denounces the silence to which women —particularly those who withdraw from adopting a male-dominated discourse—have been subject. This is a collection about women whose stories were long silenced or disregarded: diasporic and exiled women, activists, militant scholars, avant-garde writers, and forerunners of women’s rights. The researchers and contributors to this volume have dared to remember and retell the stories of those women who blazed a trail through unchartered territory—women whose contributions have been overlooked and ignored. In that sense, each contribution to Memory and Emotion: (Basque) Women’s Stories could be deemed a metatextual process of memory construction— a process of meaning-making from past experiences, knowledge, and identity. The chapters focus on relevant questions such as: Does emotion help us remember? How do emotions affect the ability to recall memories? Does memory contribute to adaptation? Does restoring one’s self—individually and/or collectively—mean daring to remember? And is oblivion...
A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
by David Horgan
ISBN: 9781647790202
Pub Date: 17 August 2021
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
The sweeping true story of two courageous women—Russian Jewish refugees who survived World War II in China and Japan and their subsequent life as American immigrants
We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read, aren’t we? Where else do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? At once a memoir, a reading journal, and a novel, Fragments...
The history of the United States from the Civil War to World War II is the canvas of this double biography of the most famous Native American of his time—physician Charles Ohiyesa Eastman—and the white woman he met at the Wounded Knee Massacre in late 1890 and married, Elaine Goodale. Bonded by love and the trauma they witnessed, this mixed-race couple wrote 22 books, gave speeches, lobbied Congress, and organized Indian communities, investing their lives in changing U.S. policies that progressively reduced the power and resources of Indigenous Americans.
Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
by Marion Merriman and Warren Lerude
ISBN: 9781948908740
Pub Date: 22 September 2020
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
“An important, inspiring, and riveting story of a brave man furiously fighting in every sense for his ideals, it reveals much about memory and loss.” — Katherine Stafford, The Volunteer
American Commander in Spain is the inspirational and agonizing story of Robert Hale Merriman commanding idealists fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and his wife who so adored him she joined with him in the war.
The Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government’s crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation. This is the quintessential story of the war on immigrants, as fought and felt on the front lines in the heart of America.
Frank Bergon’s newest work is a thoughtful exploration of the ways that memories of random childhood events become unexpected revelations about life in the West. In many senses this project is a personalized version of Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man where Bergon explored the ways that a multiethnic and multiracial society shaped, and continues to shape, the day-to-day lived realities of the residents and communities of the San Joaquin Valley. Bergon’s latest book creation, however, is more elegiac in tone, paying tribute to ranching and farming lives that are disappearing under suburban and exurban sprawl, industrial farming, and white-collar job growth.
