Historical memory as a trauma in the peasant autobiographic narratives Cover Image

Историческая память как травма в крестьянских автобиографических нарративах
Historical memory as a trauma in the peasant autobiographic narratives

Author(s): Elena E. Levkievskaya
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Oral history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Russian Literature, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: oral history; biography; narrative; folk tradition; Eastern Slavs; traumatic memory;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the representations in the modern Eastern Slavic peasant autobiographical narratives about 20th century history. Peasant biographies, diaries, oral peasant tales about the life are the materials of this work. Eastern Slavic autobiographical texts are based on traumatic interpretation of history. The main composition of cultural indices in such narratives about the past coincides with the collection of personal and collective disasters including revolution, Civil War, collectivization, dekulakization, repressions, Great Domestic War and postwar hunger. The article analyzes traumatic memory as such type of memory which interprets the past as a set of personal and general traumas and failures.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 172
  • Page Range: 122-133
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian