Urban commemoration and literature in post-Soviet L'viv
A comparative analysis with the Polish experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uilleam Blacker (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 637-654 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2014.880830 |
| OpenAlex | W2064782752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article analyzes how the Poles and Jews who disappeared from the western Ukrainian city of L'viv as a result of the Second World War are remembered in the city today. It examines a range of commemorative practices, from monuments and museums to themed cafes and literature, and analyzes how these practices interact to produce competing mnemonic narratives. In this respect, the article argues for an understanding of the city as a complex text consisting of a diverse range of mutually interdependent mnemonic media produced by a range of actors. The article focuses in particular on the ways in which Ukrainian nationalist narratives interact with the memory of the city's “lost others.” The article also seeks to understand L'viv‘s memory culture through comparison with a range of Polish cities that have faced similar problems with commemorating vanished communities, but have witnessed a deeper recognition of these communities than has been the case in L'viv. The article proposes reasons for the divergences between the memory cultures of L'viv and that found in Polish cities, and attempts to outline the gradual processes by which L'viv‘s Polish and Jewish pasts might become more widely integrated into the city's memory culture
Art · Collective memory · Cultural memory · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Mnemonic · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · Ukrainian · Anthropology · Central European Literary Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
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L'Europe et ses passés douloureux
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe
Postwar
The Ukrainian West
The Politics of Becoming European
The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction
Stalin's Empire of Memory
Different but the Same or the Same but Different? Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv
Hard and Soft in Cultural Memory
Borderlands into Bordered Lands. Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Bitter Legacy
The Lviv Pogrom of 1941
The Shaping of “Historical Truth”
Multidirectional Memory
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |