Memory Ideologies of Two Presents
Aatami Kuortti's Testimonies of the Gulag and Soviet Terror of Ingrian Finns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulla Savolainen (0000-0002-7995-416X, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-171 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-9471038 |
| OpenAlex | W4220975393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article attends to literary testimonies of the Gulag and Soviet terror by an Ingrian Finnish man called Aatami Kuortti from the perspective of cultural memory. By analyzing two testimonies by Kuortti published in Finland in 1934 and 1964, the article focuses on "memory ideologies," namely, the underlying conceptions concerning the nature, functions, and consequences of memory reflected in the testimonies. Contextualizing the works with respect to the times of their publication and analyzing differences between them, it will argue that Kuortti's testimonies represent two different types of memory ideologies: instrumental and reflexive. Moreover, the article suggests that the significance of the notion of memory ideology is that it affords systematic analysis of the ways in which memory is conceptualized on various levels of culture in general and mobilized in literary testimonies and memoirs in particular. It is a useful concept for analyzing beliefs, conceptions, and principles that people and societies reflexively associate with memory. The importance of understanding memory ideologies lies in the fact that they regiment the ways in which people and societies use and interpret memory, and in these processes make evaluations with social, political, and ethical ramifications
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Collective memory · Cultural memory · Epistemology · Gulag · Ideology · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Psychoanalysis · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
Intertextuality
Memory in Culture
Present Pasts
Introduction
Civil Religion in America
Creating Diversities
State Martyrs
Transnational Memory
The Myth of Jewish Communism
Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
Affordances of memorability
Points and poetics of memory
Tellability, frame and silence
Death and Redemption
We’re Finns here, and Russians there’
Surviving the Soviet Meat Grinder
The History of the Gulag
Recovering the Past for the Future
Travelling Memory
Imagined communities
On Semiotic Ideology
Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader
History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony
The Dispersal of the Ingrian Finns
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
Toward a Poetics of Documentary Prose--From the Perspective of Gulag Testimonies
The Return
The Traits of Cultural Contacts Between Orthodox and Lutheran Commemoration Practices Among Ingrian Finnish Women
Religion and Politics in the Modern World
Boundaries of National Belonging in Ingrian Finnish Return Migration
Memory Unbound
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |