Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler Blessed are the peacemakers 9780817320904

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Автор: Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler
Название: Blessed are the peacemakers
ISBN: 9780817320904
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Дневники, письма и журналы

Изучение процессов поддержания мира и разрешения конфликтов

История Америк

Вторая мировая война

ISBN-10: 0817320903
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 232
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2021
Серия: Language/Linguistics
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 15 black & white figures
Размер: 23.11 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Подзаголовок: Small histories during world war ii, letter writing, and family history methodology
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors In the summer of 2013, Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters exchanged between her late grandparents, Miriam and Benjamin Kesler. The letters, written between 1941 and 1946, were filled with typical wartime sentiments: love and longing, anguish at being apart, uncertainty about the war and the country’s future, and attempts at humor to keep their spirits up. What is unusual about their story is that Ben Kesler was not writing from a theater of war. Instead, Ben, a member of the Dunkard Brethren Church, was a conscientious objector. He, along with about 12,000 other men, opted to join the Civilian Public Service (CPS) and contribute to “work of national importance” at one of the 218 CPS camps around the country. In Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology, Rumsey has mined not only her grandparents letters but also archival research on CPS camps and historical data from several Mennonite and Brethren archives to recapture the narrative of Bens service at two different camps and of Miriams struggle to support herself and her husband financially at the young age of seventeen. Ben and Miriams life during the war was extraordinarily ordinary, spanning six years of unrecognized and humble work for their country. Ben was not compensated for his work in the camps, and Miriam stayed home and worked as a day laborer, as a live-in maid, as a farmhand, and in the family butcher shop in order to earn enough money to support them both. Small histories like that of her grandparents, Rumsey argues, provide a unique perspective on significant political and historical moments. Blessed Are the Peacemakers also explores the rhetorical functions of letter writing as well as the methodology of family history writing. Ben and Miriams letters provide an apt backdrop to examine the genre, a relatively understudied mode of literacy. Rumsey situates the young couples correspondence within ars dictaminis, the art of letter writing, granting new insights into the genre and how personal accounts shape our understanding of historical events.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas|Diaries, letters and journals|Biography: general|Second World War|Modern warfare|Peace studies and conflict resolution|Creative writing and creative writing guides

Blessed are the peacemakers, Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler