Introduction: Recoveries, Excavations, Recastings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Recoveries, Excavations, Recastings 1
4. 1. What's in a Name? Defining Race and Class in a New Orleans Family 15
5. 2. What Did I Do with the One I Lost? 31
6. 3. The Diary of a Twelve-Year-Old Hostage: Erasure and Survival in Family Memories, Stories, and Archives 49
7. 4. Peira Cava, Hollow Stone: Family Stories, Gendered Silence 65
8. 5. A Child of Loving 89
9. 6. Who Gave You Permission? Race, Colonialism, and Family Photography 105
10. 7. Mine: Kinship in Deep Time along the Pennsylvania Salient 126
11. 8. The Genre of Inheritance: Dancing with Grandma 147
12. 9. Beyond Taboo, Worship, and Irony: Tracing the War in My Family History 163
13. 10. Jack in the Fog 176
14. Afterword 196
15. Contributors 203
16. Notes 207