Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe: Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces: History, Trauma and the Politics of Spatial Imagination in Ukraine and Poland....Pages 25-44
Forgotten Memory? Vicissitudes of the Gulag Remembrance in Poland....Pages 45-65
When Memory Is Not Enough: Roaming and Writing the Spaces of the Other Europe....Pages 66-85
Re-reading the Monuments of the Past....Pages 86-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Dignity and Defiance: The Resilience to Repair and Rebuild in Response to Despair....Pages 105-123
Individual and Official Narratives of Conflict in Croatia: Schools as Sites of Memory Production....Pages 124-143
Bordering on Tears and Laughter: Changes of Tonality in the Life Histories of Estonian Deportees....Pages 144-163
Memory of Lost Local Homelands: Social Transmission of Memory of the Former Polish Eastern Borderlands in Contemporary Poland....Pages 164-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History: On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance....Pages 185-201
From Skull Tower to Mall: Competing Victim Narratives and the Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia....Pages 202-221
Post-communist Romanians Facing the Mirror of Securitate Files....Pages 222-241
Divided Memory in Hungary: The House of Terror and the Lack of a Left-wing Narrative....Pages 242-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-266