Reproducing Identity through Remembering

Cultural Texts on the Late Soviet Period

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ID3042036
AutoresKirsti Jõesalu (0000-0003-1756-047X, autor correspondente), Raili Nugin (0000-0003-1428-5724)
Ano2012
Fascículo51
Páginas15-48
Data de publicação2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFolklore Electronic Journal of Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1406-0957 • E-ISSN: 1406-0949
EditoraEstonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7592/fejf2012.51.joesalu-nugin
OpenAlexW2112080112
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas17

This article explores some of the ways in which memories of the Soviet past shape the identities and creative work of six Estonian intellectuals born in the 1970s. Based on analysis of the four cultural texts they have produced (an exhibition, a feature film, a novel and a documentary) and biographical interviews with them, it is argued that the authors' birth frame has had an impact on how they interpret the late Soviet period. They share discursive practices about this period: mutual interpretative principles, which validate their common experience in discourses. Their experience of living in the Soviet system is limited to their childhood years only

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics