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Age, Narrative and Migration
The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London
by Katy Gardner
ISBN: 1859733131
ISBN-13: 9781859733134
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published date: 2002
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 254
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AGE, NARRATIVE AND MIGRATION: The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London
Gardner, Katy
Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002. vii, 254 pp. Footnotes, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. While the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of aging, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do not necessarily feel they belong. The ways in which they talk about and deal with this, and in particular, their ambivalence towards Britain and Bangladesh lies at the heart of the book. Centrally, the book is based around the men and women's life stories. In her analysis of these, the author shows how narratives play an important role in the formation of both collective and individual identity and are key domains for the articulation of gender and age. Underlying the stories that people tell, and sometimes hidden within their gaps and silences, are often other issues and concerns. Using particular idioms and narrative devices, the elders talk about the contradictions and disjunctions of transmigration, their relationship with and sometimes resistance to, the British State, and what they often present as the breakdown of traditional ways. In addition to this, the book shows that histories, stories and identity are not just narrated through words, but also through the body--an area rarely theorized in studies of migration. CONTENTS: 1) Journeys, Age and Narrative: An Introduction. 2) Ways of Telling. 3) Two Elders. 4) Men's Histories: Narratives of Masculinity and Migration. 5) Women's Histories: The Transnational Work of Kinship and Caring. 6) Ageing Bodies: Dependency, Ambivalence and Protest. 7) Narrating Sickness: Women's and Men's Accounts of Strokes and Chronic Illness. 8) The Final Journey: Death, Ritual and Return to the Desh. 9) Conclusion: Desh-Bidesh Revisited. Glossary. Appendix: Basic Household Information.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/No Jacket (as issued). 23 x 15 cm. ( more information) Offered by A Scholar's Tale Booksellers (United States)
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