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dc.contributor.authorBarker, Meghanne
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-24T12:06:28Z
dc.date.available2024-07-24T12:06:28Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92437
dc.description.abstractThrow Your Voice is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. Sites and stories run in parallel. Framed by the narrative of Anton Chekhov's ""Kashtanka,"" about a lost dog taken in by a kind stranger, the author follows the story's staging at the puppet theater. At Hope House, children find themselves on a path similar to Kashtanka, dislodged from their first homes to reside in a second. The heart of this story is about living in displacement and about the fragile intimacies achieved amidst conditions of missing. Whether due to war, migration, or pandemic, people get separated from those closest to them. Throw Your Voice examines how strangers become familiar, and how objects mediate precarious ties. She shows how people use fantasy to mitigate loss.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXM Puppetry, miniature and toy theatreen_US
dc.subject.otherPuppetry in Central Asia, Children in postsocialist state institutional care, Performing cuteness and vulnerability for adults, Fantastic play with dolls and puppets, National ideologies of hope and futurityen_US
dc.titleThrow Your Voiceen_US
dc.title.alternativeSuspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoodsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781501776458en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781501776472en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781501776465en_US
oapen.pages251en_US


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