TY - BOOK ID - 68767588 TI - Narratives of Exile and Identity AU - Balkelis, Tomas AU - Davoliute, Violeta AU - Jolluck, Katherine R PY - 2018 SN - 9789633861837 9789633861844 9633861845 9633861837 PB - Budapest New York DB - UniCat KW - Balts (Indo-European people) KW - Collective memory KW - Deportees KW - Political persecution KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Crimes against KW - History KW - Deportations from Baltic States. KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Deported persons KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Exiles KW - Refugees KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Aestii KW - Baltic peoples KW - Ethnology KW - Indo-Europeans KW - Political repression KW - Repression, Political KW - Persecution KW - Civil rights KW - 20th century, Forced labor, Forced migrations, Identity, Soviet Union, Women. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68767588 AB - In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives, read testimonies, interviewed former deportees, and examined artifacts of memory produced since the late 1980s, applying crossdisciplinary approaches used at the study of the Holocaust testimonies; the testimonies of women have received a particular emphasis. The essays in the book also examine the issues of transmittance, commemoration and public uses of the memory of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including the reflection of Gulag legacy in literature, the cinema and museums. ER -