A House with No Walls

by Mikušková, Anna

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As a child, I often listened to my father’s stories of his boyhood in 1950s Czechoslovakia; adventures taking place in the narrow cobblestoned streets of his hometown or near the fields and lakes of his grandparents’ village. I never met any of his family. And by the time I was born, the streets and buildings that came alive in his descriptions were gone: they were demolished together with eighty other towns in the area to make way for expanding coal mines. With no way to connect my father’s me…

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As a child, I often listened to my father’s stories of his boyhood in 1950s Czechoslovakia; adventures taking place in the narrow cobblestoned streets of his hometown or near the fields and lakes of his grandparents’ village. I never met any of his family. And by the time I was born, the streets and buildings that came alive in his descriptions were gone: they were demolished together with eighty other towns in the area to make way for expanding coal mines. With no way to connect my father’s memories to physical locations or even images, the stories I heard sounded like make-believe, no more real than the tales I read in my storybooks.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021

Thesis Information

  • Degree:M.F.A.
  • University:Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Advisor/Supervisor:Thorson, Joshua JT
  • Pages:34

Publication Statements

  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021

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  • proquest:2532525287

Subjects

Artists' books East European studies eng European History Fine Arts Geography History Identity Mining PDF Photography

Writers

Mikušková, Anna Thorson, Joshua JT

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