This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression
and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse
forms of materialization. The chapters of the book explore the
concrete mobilities of life stories, letters, memoirs, literature,
objects, and bodies reflecting Soviet repression and violence across
borders of geographical locations, historical periods, and affective
landscapes. These spatial, temporal, and psychological shifts are
explored further as processes of textual circulation and mediation. By
offering novel multi-sited and multi-media analyses of the creative,
political, societal, cultural, and intimate implications of
remembrance, the collection contributes fresh interdisciplinary
perspectives to both the field of memory studies and the study of
Soviet repression. The case studies in this collection focus on the
personal, autobiographical, and intimate representations, experiences,
and practices related to the remembrance of Stalinist repression and
displacement as they are mediated through memoirs, fiction,
interviews, and versatile commemorative practices. Taken together, the
book asks: what happens to memories, life stories, testimonies, and
experiences when they travel in time and space and between media and
are (re)interpreted and (re)formulated through these transfers? What
kinds of memorial forms are gained through processes of mediation?
What types of spaces for remembering, telling, and feeling are
created, negotiated, and contested through these shifts? What are the
boundaries and intersections of intimate, familial, community,
national, and transnational memories? By analytically contextualizing
the various case studies within broader memory discourses in a range
of geographical and political contexts, the book offers rich and
multilayered interpretations of the enduring ramifications of
communist repression. The collection demonstrates that these multiply
moving memories not only reflect Eastern European memory culture but
also reach far beyond and have transnational and transgenerational
significance. As such, this timely book will be essential reading for
anyone with an interest in the former Soviet Union or memory studies
more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0
license.
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The Multiple and Mobile Lives of Memories
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ISBN
9781000893014
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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