ZESŁANIE JAKO WYZWOLENIE – NARRACJE Z HUCULSZCZYZNY
DEPORTATION AS LIBERATION: NARRATIVES FROM THE HUTSUL REGION, UKRAINE
Author(s): Irena Antonina TeleżyńskaSubject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Keywords: deportations; repressions; the Hutsul region; Siberia; narrations; memory; trajectory;
Summary/Abstract: This article, based on my fieldwork conducted in the Hutsul region (Ukraine), focuses on narrations of people deported to Siberia between 1946 and 1952. I propose the following scheme of their narrative: (1) showing the life before the deportation as extremely difficult and depriving of agency due to the struggle of the partisan movement with the Russian occupying power, (2) the moment of deportation described succinctly, as a definite and abrupt end of one reality and beginning of another, (3) portraying the every-day life after the deportation as initially extraordinarily hard, but tamed with time (life led after the deportation became ‘normal’ and even affluent). I also indicate why these narrations are so different from the Polish stories of the Soviet oppression which focus on trauma and martyrology.
Journal: LUD
- Issue Year: 102/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 339-364
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish