"It's hard to recall those things when life is so different today:" the role of discourse, memory, and agency in uncovering experiences of southern Alberta war brides

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dc.contributor.authorYoung, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMacDonald, Heidi
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-30T19:17:56Z
dc.date.available2014-10-30T19:17:56Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionv, 161 leaves ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractUsing the historically-specific group of Southern Alberta war brides, European women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War, this thesis demonstrates and contests the discursive constructions of historical knowledge. Within this context, fundamental issues of agency, discourse, memory, and experience are the focal points of this examination. This thesis provides a critical reinterpretation of these core issues to uncover what role, if any, the war brides play in the construction of their own historical images and how their identities are informed by the discursive representations of them. Using discursive representations and oral history interviews of the war brides, this thesis revisits current debates within women’s history such as the role of discursive formation, the question of experience, and the debate surrounding collective and personal memory to make conclusions about the active or passive role these women play in the writing and representation of their histories.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3594
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0334en_US
dc.proquest.subject0453en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History, 2014en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectWar bridesen_US
dc.subjectSouthern Albertaen_US
dc.subjectWomen's historyen_US
dc.subjectDiscursive formationen_US
dc.subjectExperienceen_US
dc.subjectCollective memoryen_US
dc.subjectPersonal memoryen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.title"It's hard to recall those things when life is so different today:" the role of discourse, memory, and agency in uncovering experiences of southern Alberta war bridesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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