PHIL 2015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: David Bezmozgis, Short Story Cycle, Cultural Memory
25 Nov 2017
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Stories of migration, alterity, and alienation: biography, autobiographical elements, but fictional first-person narrator (mark bergman), immigrant story: the arrival ( tapka, an animal to the memory , coping with alienation: the human/dog connection in tapka . 5. the refugees from the soviet union: roman berman, massage therapist, the. Biography: david bezmozgis, b. in 1973 in latvia, ba, english, mcgill, mfa, the school of cinema and television, university of southern california. Russian: there was still a need for friendship and community. The irony of the refugee"s position: roman berman, massage therapist : this was 1983, and as russian jews, recent immigrants, and political refugees, we were still a cause. We could trade on our history (21): the immigrant is exploited, but is also an opportunist, bella, mark"s mother, believed that [her husband"s] strongest selling point was his status as a soviet refugee. The most important appeal, she said, was to guilt and empathy (26-7).
