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Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth.

While collecting the scattered stories of his parents' entangled passages to the United States, the narrator begins to record the material onto videocassettes through a series of cutting and grafting, splicing footage of his present dislocation and overlaying on the audio track the polyphonic voices of his inherited exiles.

VHS reminds us, in its narrative’s insistence on mediation, that the slippage between speaker and listener, experience and memory, is also a fault line that can reveal our own prior movements.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Vhs
• Author: Chris Campanioni
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• EAN: 9781960988386
• ISBN: 1960988387
• ID: 44725588
• Publisher: Clash Books
• Weight: 302 g
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2025

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