The past of the socialist childhood through the lens of the Bulgarian literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14712928 |
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| Authors | A Luleva (0000-0002-7185-7867, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 19-36 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glasnik Etnografskog instituta (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0350-0861 • E-ISSN: 2334-8259 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/gei2202019l |
| OpenAlex | W4312907032 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The Childhood during the State-socialist Bulgaria is thematized in a plethora of novels and auto-fictional literature, published in the last three decades. Many of these works pose the question ?Is the past of my own childhood a ?foreign country? for me?? This is a question very close to the anthropological one: ?Could we know and understand our own (childhood?s) past as insiders?? In this paper I will take a close look at the presentations of the Socialist Childhood in some popular Bulgarian novels, written after the Fall of Communism by authors belonging to different generations. I will discuss them from an anthropological perspective. How this past is presented, reflected, and as such - becomes an important part of the cultural memory about the Bulgarian State Socialism, is the main research question of this paper
Art · Bulgarian · Communism · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Visual arts · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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