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722979
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b542692
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[edited by] Simona Mitroiu.
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Life writing and politics of memory in Eastern Europe\ [edited by] Simona Mitroiu.
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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| ISBN
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1137485523
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: 1137485531
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: 1349565032
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: 9781137485526
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: 9781137485533
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: 9781349565030
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Biography as a literary form.
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Collective memory -- Europe, Eastern.
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East European prose literature -- History and criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PN849.E9E358 2015
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| Added Entry
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Simona Mitroiu
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