Tremties kaip kančios įvaizdžiai viešajame diskurse ir tremtinių pasakojimuose
How Public Discourse and the Stories of Deportees Represent the Torment of Exile

Summary/Abstract: Deportations as suffering are an important part of the public discourse and the national ideology of Lithuania. They are associated with their victims’ innocence and helplessness and are represented through emotionally charged stories of extreme experiences full of torment and deprivation. These images of exile tend not to focus on the suffering of individual deportees but to represent the whole nation as the victim and target of deportations, which are thus endowed with a national and patriotic essence. Individual stories that are formed in this context take on some of the popular features of portraying and perceiving deportations as epitomes of suffering. However, even though being deported really was a very difficult experience for many individuals, deportation stories present a much broader and much more variegated image of exile. Suffering there does not always take the most important part.

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