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A Woman In amber:Healing the Trauma Of War and Exile
[Paperback - 1997]
agate nesaule
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Sub-category: Women Studies
Additional Category: Sociology - Psychology
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140261905 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .232 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .6 x 7.7 inches

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"Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.

About the Author

Agate Nesaule, born in 1938, Riga, Lativa, experienced the turmoil of WWII in Germany. After five years in displaced persons' camps, she came to the United States in 1950 and taught herself English by reading "Gone With The Wind." She received a BA, graduating summa cum laude, and her MA in English, both from the University of Indiana-Bloomington. In 1972, Nesaule earned her PhD in 20th century British and American Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.As professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, she received numerous awards: Saunders Award for Excellence for Teaching in the Humanities, College of Letters & Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award, Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award. Pioneering in Women's Studies, she developed interdisciplinary and literature courses still regularly taught at the UW-Whitewater.In addition to academic articles (Critique, Doris Lessing Newsletter, Feminist Literary Criticism, World Literature Written in English), she has published literary essays in Latvian and English (Universitas; Northwest Review; Iris: A Journal of Women; Latvijas Sievietes, Map of Hope; An International Anthology of Women's Writing on Human Rights; Poets and Writers Magazine).Her memoir "A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile" (Soho Press 1995; Penguin 1996) received an American Book Award in 1996 and was named an Outstanding Achievement by the Wisconsin Library Association. It has been translated into six languages and served as the basis of several dramatic productions (Whole Arts Theater of Michigan, 700th Anniversary celebration of the founding of Riga in Latvia) and is still in print.Nesaule's novel "In Love with Jerzy Kosinski" was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2009.Her recently-published novel "Lost Midsummers: A Novel of Women's Friendship in Exile" was translated into Latvian and published in Latvia.Agate Nesaule lives, writes, and gardens in Madison, Wisconsin.

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