In this Book
- Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Central European University Press
summary
In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives, read testimonies, interviewed former deportees, and examined artifacts of memory produced since the late 1980s, applying crossdisciplinary approaches used at the study of the Holocaust testimonies; the testimonies of women have received a particular emphasis. The essays in the book also examine the issues of transmittance, commemoration and public uses of the memory of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including the reflection of Gulag legacy in literature, the cinema and museums.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Part I: Experience of Deportation
- Part II: Commemoration and Transference of the Memory of Deportation
- Bibliography
- pp. 205-216
- List of Contributors
- p. 221
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633861844
Related ISBN(s)
9789633861837
MARC Record
OCLC
1048342503
Pages
230
Launched on MUSE
2018-08-15
Language
English
Open Access
No