Life writing and politics of memory in Eastern Europe
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
[edited by] Simona Mitroiu.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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 Pruchov --;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; Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper --;PART III --;10. Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History. On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance; Ferenc Lacz --;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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Biography as a literary form.
Collective memory -- Europe, Eastern.
East European prose literature -- History and criticism.