Displacement And Postmemory In Post Soviet Womens Writing

Author : Marja Sorvari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303095837X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing written by Marja Sorvari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Samira Saramo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000893014
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement written by Samira Saramo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Simona Mitroiu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319968335
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe written by Simona Mitroiu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses the quest for personal (post)memory from the perspective of the second and third generations. The touching collaboration established in reconstructing individual and family (post)memories offers invaluable insights into the effects of displacement, coping mechanisms, and resilience. Adopting the idea that the text itself becomes a site of (post)memory, the second part of the volume brings into discussion different sites and develops further this topic in relation to the creative process and visual text. The last part questions the past in relation to trauma and identity displacement in the countries where abusive regimes destroyed social bonds and had a lasting impact on the people lives.

Author : Simona Mitroiu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766531
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania written by Simona Mitroiu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women’s lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women’s autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy.

Author : Mary Buckley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521565308
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Soviet Women written by Mary Buckley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to to take a systematic look at the position of women in the post-Soviet states of the former USSR.

Author : Barbara Alpern Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia written by Barbara Alpern Engel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : I. Grekova
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780719549595
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Women Writing written by I. Grekova and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1991 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Soviet women writers, this book reveals a great deal about the concerns, feelings and aspirations of Soviet women. This work includes writings from Lidia Ginzburg, Viktoria Tokareva and Tatyana Tolstaya.

Author : Karolina Krasuska
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978832788
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet-Born written by Karolina Krasuska and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration. Soviet-Born demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

Author : Jennifer Leetsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030677540
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing written by Jennifer Leetsch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.

Author : Brett Ashley Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350230138
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Memory Studies written by Brett Ashley Kaplan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken.