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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Photography, Memory, and Refugee Identity

The Voyage of the SS Walnut, 1948

by (author) Lynda Mannik

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2013
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-), Emigration & Immigration, Historical, Cultural, Baltic States
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774824446
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774824460
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774824453
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

In 1948, a small ship carrying Estonian refugees arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax. In this absorbing work, anthropologist Lynda Mannik analyzes the refugee experience through the photographic record of those who made that harrowing voyage. Drawing on a collection of photographs taken during the voyage and at Pier 21, Mannik asks surviving passengers to describe their journey, their reception in Canada, and to what extent the photos reflect their experiences as they remember them. The photographs in the SS Walnut collection, she argues, bear witness to the refugee experience even as the meanings attached to them have changed over time and in shifting contexts.

About the author

Lynda Mannik is the author of Canadian Indian Cowboys in Australia: Representation, Rodeo and the RCMP at the Royal Easter Show, 1939 (2006) and Photography, Memory and Refugee Identity: The Voyage of the S.S. Walnut, 1948 (2013). Additional scholarship has appeared in Visual Studies, Memory Studies, and Journalism Studies. She has been a visiting assistant professor at Trent University, Peterborough, and Memorial University, St. John’s. She currently teaches anthropology at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on visual media, memory, and affect in various photographic realms.

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