Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
Simona Mitroiu(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-1-349-56503-0 (ISBN)
Description
Through well-documented case studies this volume showcases the multifaceted relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective in Eastern Europe.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-56503-0 (9781349565030)
DOI
10.1057/9781137485526
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Michele Frucht Levy, North Carolina A & T State University, USA
Ma?gorzata G?owacka-Grajper, University of Warsaw, Poland
Csilla Kiss, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Hannah Kliger, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, University of Lodz, Poland
Ferenc Laczó, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany
Borislava Manojlovic, Seton Hall University, USA
Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen, Villanova University, USA
Andrea Pr?chová, Charles University, Czech Republic
Aigi Rahi-Tamm, University of Tartu, Estonia
Irene Sywenky, University of Alberta, Canada
Raluca Ursachi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Lidia Zessin-Jurek, Collegium Polonicum, Germany
Ma?gorzata G?owacka-Grajper, University of Warsaw, Poland
Csilla Kiss, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Hannah Kliger, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams, University of Lodz, Poland
Ferenc Laczó, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany
Borislava Manojlovic, Seton Hall University, USA
Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen, Villanova University, USA
Andrea Pr?chová, Charles University, Czech Republic
Aigi Rahi-Tamm, University of Tartu, Estonia
Irene Sywenky, University of Alberta, Canada
Raluca Ursachi, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Lidia Zessin-Jurek, Collegium Polonicum, Germany
Content
1. Introduction; Simona Mitroiu
PART I
2. Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Spatial Imagination in Ukraine and Poland; Irene Sywenky
3. Forgotten Memory? Vicissitudes of the Gulag Remembrance in Poland; Lidia Zessin-Jurek
4. When Memory Is Not Enough: Roaming and Writing the Spaces of the Other Europe; Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams
5. Re-Reading the Monuments of the Past; Andrea Pr?chová
PART II
6. Dignity and Defiance: The Resilience to Repair and Rebuild in Response to Despair; Hannah Kliger and Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen
7. Individual and Official Narratives of Conflict in Croatia: Schools as Sites of Memory Production; Borislava Manojlovic
8. Bordering on Tears and Laughter: Changes of Tonality in the Life Histories of Estonian Deportees; Aigi Rahi-Tamm
9. Memory of Lost Local Homelands. Social Transmission of Memory of the Former Polish Eastern Borderlands in Contemporary Poland; Ma?gorzata G?owacka-Grajper
PART III
10. Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History. On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance; Ferenc Laczó
11. From Skull Tower to Mall: Competing Victim Narratives and the Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia; Michele Frucht Levy
12. Post-communist Romanians Facing the Mirror of Securitate Files; Raluca Ursachi
13. Divided memory in Hungary: the House of Terror and the lack of a left-wing narrative; Csilla Kiss
PART I
2. Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Spatial Imagination in Ukraine and Poland; Irene Sywenky
3. Forgotten Memory? Vicissitudes of the Gulag Remembrance in Poland; Lidia Zessin-Jurek
4. When Memory Is Not Enough: Roaming and Writing the Spaces of the Other Europe; Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams
5. Re-Reading the Monuments of the Past; Andrea Pr?chová
PART II
6. Dignity and Defiance: The Resilience to Repair and Rebuild in Response to Despair; Hannah Kliger and Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen
7. Individual and Official Narratives of Conflict in Croatia: Schools as Sites of Memory Production; Borislava Manojlovic
8. Bordering on Tears and Laughter: Changes of Tonality in the Life Histories of Estonian Deportees; Aigi Rahi-Tamm
9. Memory of Lost Local Homelands. Social Transmission of Memory of the Former Polish Eastern Borderlands in Contemporary Poland; Ma?gorzata G?owacka-Grajper
PART III
10. Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History. On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance; Ferenc Laczó
11. From Skull Tower to Mall: Competing Victim Narratives and the Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia; Michele Frucht Levy
12. Post-communist Romanians Facing the Mirror of Securitate Files; Raluca Ursachi
13. Divided memory in Hungary: the House of Terror and the lack of a left-wing narrative; Csilla Kiss