The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement (eBook, PDF)

The Multiple and Mobile Lives of Memories
Redaktion: Saramo, Samira; Savolainen, Ulla

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000892963
• Artikelnr.: 67770280

Autorenporträt

Samira Saramo is Kone Foundation Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland. Saramo is a transdisciplinary historian researching Finnish mobilities through the lenses of life writing, emotions, community, place, and the everyday. She is the author of Building That Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans (2022). Saramo's research has been published in Journal of Social History, Qualitative Research, European Journal of Life Writing, Comparative American Studies, European Journal of American Studies and elsewhere. She is the Chair and Founder of the History of Finnish Migrations Network and Vice Chair of the Finnish Oral History Network. Ulla Savolainen is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Cultures. She is a folklorist specializing in memory studies, oral history, and narrative research. Her research interests include poetics and politics of remembrance, transnationality, and materiality. She is the leader of the research projects "Transnational Memory Cultures of Ingrian Finns" (2020-2022) and "Toward an ecology of memory. Mediums, modalities, and agents of the construction of Ingrian Finnish pasts" (2022-2025). Savolainen's doctoral dissertation (2015) focused on the life writings of former Karelian child evacuees in Finland. She has also researched oral histories of internments of German and Hungarian citizens in Finland in 1944-1946 and analyzed reception of compensation for past injustice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Moving Memories of Stalin-era Repression and Displacement
Part I: Mobile Becomings 1. Gender, Loyalty, and the Epistolary
Manifestation of Feeling, 1936-1940 2. Siberian Letters and Memory of
Transatlantic Correspondence between Lithuanians in the West and the Soviet
Union 3. Mnemonic Affordances of Family Photographs: Assembling
Memorability of Displacement and Soviet Repression Part II: Commemorative
Materializations 4. The Zone: Remembering the Political Repression Camp
"Perm-36" 5. On the Role of the Individual in Materializing, Mediating, and
Commemorating Memories of the Stalinist Repressions 6. "It Didn't Happen
Here, or Happen Now, But It Happened to Us": Stories of Bread and Hunger in
L'viv, Ukraine Part III: Attuning Belonging and Family Memory 7. Suffering,
Death, and Homeland in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Deportees 8. Mediating
(Post)memory in Multilingual and Multicultural Writing: The
Autobiographical Texts of Katharina Martin-Virolainen and Anna Soudakova 9.
Remembering the Ingrian Finns and Soviet Terror in the Novels by Anita and
Juhani Konkka Part IV: Implications of Suffering 10. Complicity in
Commemoration: The "Traumatic Enfilade" in the Work of Maria Stepanova 11.
Remembering Soviet Terror in the Aftermath of the Donbas War: Mondegreen
by Volodymyr Rafeyenko 12. Afterlives of Gulag Narratives: Fictional
(Re)mediations of Displacement, Neglected Memories, and Repetitive Anxiety