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paperback. Zustand: Wie neu. Auflage: 1. 590 Seiten Neuwertig / as new! -Contents List of Figures xi LAIMA VINCE Preface: A Conversation Between Descendants and Ancestors xiii Acknowledgments xvii List of Abbreviations xxi LAIMA VINCE Introduction. Finding Common Ground: Themes of Freedom and Identity i PARTI The First and Second Waves of Lithuanian Migration to North America (1868-1918 and 1918-1940) 15 A Miniature Lithuania Inside Connecticut: A Conversation with Jocelyn Bartkevicius 23 JOCELYN BARTKEVICIUS Mother Tongue 35 Scar Tissue Surrounded by Astonishing Beauty: A Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch 57 LIDIA YUKNAVITCH Decompositions 73 The Moons of Saturn: A Conversation with James Joseph Brown 79 vi Contents JAMES JOSEPH BROWN Stebuklas 97 The First Note: A Conversation with Paul Jaskunas 107 PAUL JASKUNAS Excerpt from The Collaborator, Chapter One 117 Out of the Wild: A Conversation with Ken Ilgunas 127 KEN ILGUNAS Out of the Wild: A Life-Changing Summer Among the Bears of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve 143 PART II The Third Wave of Migration from Lithuania to North America. Displaced Persons and Their Descendants (1940-1945) 153 The First Generation: Child D.P.s 160 The Return: A Conversation with Rasa Gustaitis 161 RASA GUSTAITIS Excerpts from Flight: A Memoir of Loss and Discovery by an Aviators Daughter. Sudiev Lietuva and Return to Lithuania 171 A Little Lithuania in Alaska: A Conversation with Svaja Vansauskas Worthington 185 SVAJA VANSAUSKAS WORTHINGTON The Patrol 195 A Modern-Day Book Smuggler: A Conversation with Birute Putrius 203 Contents vii BIRUTE PUTRIUS Excerpt from Lost Birds, Becoming American, Irene Matas, 195° 215 Second-Generation Americans and Canadians: Children of D.P.s Born in North America 230 Lithuania is My Spiritual Home: A Conversation with Jonas Zdanys 231 JONAS ZDANYS Poems 245 Connection with Community: A Conversation with Irene Guilford 249 IRENE GUILFORD Excerpt from The Embrace 253 Writing Irreverent History: A Conversation with Kestutis Nakas 257 KESTUTIS NAKAS Excerpt from When Lithuania Ruled the World 163 The Death of Tony: A Conversation with Antanas Sileika 273 ANTANAS SILEIKA Excerpt from Some Unfinished Business 287 Writing Her Way to Recovery: A Conversation with Daiva Markelis 293 DAIVA MARKELIS Excerpt from White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian American Life, White Field 309 viii Contents Telling Our Stories: A Conversation with Nida Dauknys 313 NIDA DAUKNYS Excerpt from Escaping Stalin s Grasp, Arrival in America 3 21 I Am Here: A Conversation with Daiva Chesonis 325 DAIVA CHESONIS Poems 341 Exploring Intergenerational Trauma Through Research and Writing: A Conversation with Laima Vince 347 LAIMA VINCE On Identity and Acceptance 353 This Is Simply Our Path: A Conversation with Audre Budrys 361 AUDRE BUDRYS Excerpt from Miske, In the Forest 373 There Is No Weirdness New York Cannot Absorb: A Conversation with Milda De Voe 3 81 MILDA DE VOE J. E will never read this 397 Poetry and Heritage: A Conversation with Rimas Uzgiris 405 RIMAS UZGIRIS Poem 413 Breaking the Cycle: A Conversation with Maria Williams 417 Contents ix MARIA WILLIAMS Poem 429 Memory, Archives, Responsibility, and Truth-Telling: A Conversation with Julija Sukys 431 JULIJA §UKYS Excerpt from Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite, The Woman in the Park 445 A Brand of Rebellion: A Conversation with Gint Aras 451 GINT ARAS Excerpt from Relief by Execution; A Visit to Mauthausen 465 Creative but Wistful: A Conversation with Lina Ramona Vitkauskas 471 LINA RAMONA VITKAUSKAS Poems 477 PART III Litvak Emigration from Lithuania to the United States (1900-present) 481 A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in English: A Conversation with Samuel Bak 489 SAMUEL BAK Excerpt from Painted in Words 501 Rediscovering a Litvak Identity Through Yiddish: A Conversation with Ellen Cassedy 507 ISBN 9781803746227 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 837.…