[Linganth] Beth Povinelli's graphic memoir

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Randeep Hothi talks to Beth Povinelli about her graphic memoir, The
Inheritance, on the
CaMP anthropology blog today.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana


Press blurb: Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not
through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the
region where family's ancestral alpine village is found. Far more than a
map hanging above the family television, the image featured colors and
lines that held in place the memories and values fueling the Povinelli
family's fraught relationships with the village and with each other. In her
graphic memoir *The Inheritance*, Povinelli explores the events, traumas,
and powers that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and
futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents' flight from their
village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of their
knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own Catholic
childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s and 1970s,
Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence, dislocation, racism
and structural inequality that have shaped not only her life but the
American story. Plumbing the messy relationships among nationality,
ethnicity, kinship, religion, and belonging, *The Inheritance* takes us
into the gulf between the facts of history and the stories we tell
ourselves to survive and justify them.
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