Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe [recurso electrónico

This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts. Through well-documented case studies the volume showcases the plurality of approaches available for analyzing the relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe: Introduction....Pages 1-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces: History, Trauma and the Politics of Spatial Imagination in Ukraine and Poland....Pages 25-44 Forgotten Memory? Vicissitudes of the Gulag Remembrance in Poland....Pages 45-65 When Memory Is Not Enough: Roaming and Writing the Spaces of the Other Europe....Pages 66-85 Re-reading the Monuments of the Past....Pages 86-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Dignity and Defiance: The Resilience to Repair and Rebuild in Response to Despair....Pages 105-123 Individual and Official Narratives of Conflict in Croatia: Schools as Sites of Memory Production....Pages 124-143 Bordering on Tears and Laughter: Changes of Tonality in the Life Histories of Estonian Deportees....Pages 144-163 Memory of Lost Local Homelands: Social Transmission of Memory of the Former Polish Eastern Borderlands in Contemporary Poland....Pages 164-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History: On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance....Pages 185-201 From Skull Tower to Mall: Competing Victim Narratives and the Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia....Pages 202-221 Post-communist Romanians Facing the Mirror of Securitate Files....Pages 222-241 Divided Memory in Hungary: The House of Terror and the Lack of a Left-wing Narrative....Pages 242-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-266 Through well-documented case studies this volume showcases the multifaceted relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective in Eastern Europe.