Family Memory and Popular Historiography. About the Tatars from Bulgarian Dobrudja
Family Memory and Popular Historiography. About the Tatars from Bulgarian Dobrudja

Summary/Abstract: This text puts emphasis on the following issues: esteemed information of family stories of the Tatars in Bulgarian Dobrudja according to written and oral accounts; the image of the past in these stories; the role of the process of “history democratisation”, as well as the role of science and scientific and popular publications as generators of interest in the past; processes of building a prestigious past and aristocratic genealogy. These family histories are just fragments of the historical memory of the Tatar immigrants in Dobrudja. We can call them alternative memory, i.e., memory that complements, and even competes with, the dominating national memory in the formal historiography by asserting a plural point of view regarding the events of the past.

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