Despite This Loss
Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador
Edited by Elizabeth Yeoman & Ursula A. Kelly
Series: Social and Economic Papers
Series Number: 29
Paperback : 9781894725095, 280 pages, April 2010
DESPITE THIS LOSS: ESSAYS ON CULTURE, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
DESPITE THIS LOSS: Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher’s Overview
This collection includes a variety of forms - art, photography, personal narrative, translation and cross disciplinary scholarly essay - to discuss many levels and kinds of loss: cultural assimilation and change, environmental devastation, language loss, personal and collective losses, community tragedies, and a loss of continuity and sense of home and place. The book as a whole considers the impact of these losses and their relationship to culture, memory, and identity. As part of this consideration, Despite This Loss celebrates and supports new and established lines of inquiry into the structures of feeling that constitute place and belonging. The collection includes work by a new generation of cultural workers whose claims to and dreams for this place hold promise and provide a vibrant and provocative array of perspectives on cultural loss.
Reviews
“a powerful collection that makes serious efforts to understand significant aspects of Newfoundland and Labrador identity and culture — and to move on from there.”
— Marilyn Porter in NL Studies
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/nflds/2011-v26-n1-nflds26_1/nflds26_1rv06/
“Despite This Loss opens conditions for acquiring a new sense of immensity and humanity that may incite and motivate change.”
— Judith Robertson, Journal of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies
https://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/article/view/36283
Add Chinese book, Bilingual Education.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
— Honouring the memory of first author, Dr. Yu Liming, who introduced me to Shanghai and to Chinese language and culture: his extraordinary erudition, kindness, generosity and endless fascination with the world and its peoples.