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Narratives of exile and identity : Soviet deportation memoirs from the Baltic States / edited by Violeta Davoliūtė, Tomas Balkelis

Uniform Title
Maps of memory
Published
Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Davoliūtė, Violeta, 1967- and Balkelis, Tomas

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Summary
This collection of essays considers the Soviet-era gulag in the Baltic States within the broader international research on displacement and cultural memory. Scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States explore the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently? How do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? To answer these questions the authors researched archives, read testimonies (with an emphasis on testimonies by women and children), interviewed former deportees, and examined cultural artifacts produced since the late 1980s, applying cross-disciplinary approaches used in the study of Holocaust testimonies.0The essays in the book also examine the issues of cultural transmission and commemoration, as well as public manifestations of the after-effects of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including reflections of the Gulag in literature, the cinema and museums.
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ISBN
9789633861837 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9633861837 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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