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Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they're ours to hold.

Mothers and daughters --- Alzheimer's disease --- Patients --- Family relationships. --- Venema-de Jong, Geeske. --- Venema, Kathleen Rebecca, --- Alzheimer's Disease. --- Canada. --- Netherlands. --- Uganda. --- civil war. --- conflict. --- correspondence. --- cross-cultural communication. --- cross-cultural identity. --- death. --- dementia. --- dying. --- identity deformation. --- identity formation. --- international development. --- letter writing. --- memory loss. --- mother-daughter relationship. --- post-WWII immigration. --- progressive theology. --- resilience.

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"Drawing on 160 published memoirs, this book explores the costs and benefits in the post-WWII period in the United States both for individuals and for families of keeping secrets about homosexuality, institutionalization of children with disabilities, unwed pregnancy, involvement in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry"--

Family secrets --- Marginality, Social --- Stigma (Social psychology) --- History --- History --- History --- United States --- 1950s. --- 21st century america. --- 21st century history. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Baby Boomer Generation. --- Baby Boomer. --- Cold War. --- Cultural Studies. --- History of Institutionalization history of disability. --- History of the Family. --- History. --- Post-WWII United States. --- Post-WWII. --- Sociology of the Family. --- Sociology. --- US History. --- United States History: McCarthyism. --- World War II. --- adoption history. --- america in the 1950s. --- anti-semitism. --- baby boomers. --- baby scoop era. --- communism. --- ethel and julius rosenberg. --- family secrets. --- florence crittenden homes. --- gender equality. --- gender history. --- history of gender. --- homes for unwed mothers. --- jewish ancestry. --- laws against homosexuality. --- leave it to beaver. --- lgbtqia history. --- paul robeson. --- pete seeger. --- red diaper babies. --- sperm donor conception. --- stonewall riots.

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This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan's birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together "ations from Duncan's notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson.

Gay men --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poets, American --- Art and literature --- History --- Duncan, Robert, --- Duncan, Robert Edward, --- Symmes, Robert, --- Duncan, Edward Howard, --- R. D. --- D., R. --- Duncan, Edward Howe, --- Symmes, Robert Edward, --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco County (Calif.) --- San Francisco --- San Francisco City & County (Calif.) --- San Francisco City and County (Calif.) --- City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) --- Saint Francisco (Calif.) --- Yerba Buena (Calif.) --- Intellectual life --- Duncan, Robert Edward --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- 20th century america. --- 20th century lgbt community. --- 20th century literature. --- 20th century poets. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- books for english majors. --- charles olson. --- coming of age. --- gender studies. --- inspirational biography. --- inspirational poets. --- jack spicer. --- lgbt figures. --- lgbt inspiration. --- lgbt poets. --- life lessons. --- modernism literary criticism. --- poet biography. --- poetry and poets. --- post wwii america. --- postwar literature. --- postwar poetry. --- robert creeley. --- robin blaser. --- san francisco poets. --- san francisco renaissance.

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Between 1945 and 1965, the catastrophe of war--and the social and political changes it brought in its wake--had a major impact on the construction of the Soviet masculine ideal. Drawing upon a wide range of visual material, The Fate of the New Man traces the dramatic changes in the representation of the Soviet man in the postwar period. It focuses on the two identities that came to dominate such depictions in the two decades after the end of the war: the Soviet man's previous role as a soldier and his new role in the home once the war was over. In this compelling study, Claire McCallum focuses on the reconceptualization of military heroism after the war, the representation of contentious subjects such as the war-damaged body and bereavement, and postwar changes to the depiction of the Soviet man as father. McCallum shows that it was the Second World War, rather than the process of de-Stalinization, that had the greatest impact on the masculine ideal, proving that even under the constraints of Socialist Realism, the physical and emotional devastation caused by the war was too great to go unacknowledged. The Fate of the New Man makes an important contribution to Soviet masculinity studies. McCallum's research also contributes to broader debates surrounding the impact of Stalin's death on Soviet society and on the nature of the subsequent Thaw, as well as to those concerning the relationship between Soviet culture and the realities of Soviet life. This fascinating study will appeal to scholars and students of Soviet history, masculinity studies, and visual culture studies.

Masculinity in popular culture. --- Masculinity --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Popular culture --- History --- men in Soviet Union, Soviet masculinity, Soviet military, Socialist Realism, Stalin's death, post-WWII Soviet Union. --- 1900-1999 --- Soviet Union. --- Ber. ha-M. --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- ESSD --- FSSR --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyīt --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Ittiḥād-i Shūrav --- KhSHM --- PSRS --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Russia --- Russland --- Rusyah --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- Shūrav --- SNTL --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- Soi͡uz Radi͡ansʹkykh Sot͡sialistychnykh Respublik --- Soi͡uz Sovetskikh Sot͡sialisticheskikh Respublik --- Soi͡uz SSR --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Soyuz SSR --- SRSR --- SSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- SSṚM --- SSSR --- Su-lien --- Szovjetuni --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- TSRS --- UdSSR --- Uni Soviet --- Uni Sovjet --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- Union soviétique --- Unione Sovietica --- URSS --- USSR --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- ZSRR --- ZSRS --- Związek Radziecki --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich