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Narratives of exile and identity : Soviet deportation memoirs from the Baltic States / edited by Violeta Davoliūtė, Tomas Balkelis.
- Title
- Narratives of exile and identity : Soviet deportation memoirs from the Baltic States / edited by Violeta Davoliūtė, Tomas Balkelis.
- Publication
- Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 220 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Maps of memory.
- Subjects
- Political persecution
- Deportees
- Collective memory
- Political persecution > Russia (Federation) > 20th century > History > Sources
- History
- Identität
- World War, 1939-1945 > Deportations from Baltic States
- Collective memory > Baltic States
- Baltikum
- Balts (Indo-European people) > Crimes against > Russia (Federation) > 20th century > History > Sources
- 1900-1999
- Sources
- Political persecution > Baltic States > 20th century > History > Sources
- Exil
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Balts (Indo-European people)
- Deportees > Baltic States > Biography
- Russia (Federation)
- Deportation
- Baltic States
- World War (1939-1945)
- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis -- Part I. Experience of Deportation: A Soviet Story: Mass Deportation, Isolation, Return / Alain Blum, and Emilia Koustova ; Ethnicity and Identity in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Children Deported to the Gulag / Tomas Balkelis ; Homeless Forever: Home and Homelessness among Deportees from Estonia / Aigi Rahi-Tamm ; Official and Individual Perceptions: Squaring the History of Soviet Deportations with the Circle of Testimony in Latvia / Aldis Purs -- Part II. Commemoration and Transference of the Memory of Deportation: Gendering "History of Fighting and Suffering": War and Deportation in the Narratives of Women Resistance Fighters in Lithuania / Dovilė Budrytė ; "We Are All Deportees." The Trauma of Displacement and the Consolidation of National Identity during the Popular Movement in Lithuania / Violeta Davoliūtė ; Hegemony or Grassroots Movement? The Musealization of Soviet Deportations / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė ; Breaking the Silence? Contradiction and Consistency in Representing Victimhood in Baltic Museums of Occupations / Aro Velmet.
- ISBN
- 9789633861837
- 9633861837
- LCCN
- 2017000111
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries