The ‘final bell!’ performing everyday memories of communism in the Czech lands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6145656
AutoresDeanna Wooley (Indiana University Bloomington, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen18
Número1
Páginas23-40
Fecha de publicación2016-12-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2016.1269441
OpenAlexW2567115544
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

This contribution explores the importance of performativity in the collective memory of communism at a Czech high school in Pacov, where teachers and students re-enacted a ‘typical’ communist day as part of an end-of-school ‘happening’ in 2006. ‘Happenings’, originally employed by alternative artistic groups to challenge the totalitarian public sphere, have increasingly been appropriated by young people to stage their own narratives of the history of communism. The analysis utilizes ethnographic and interview material to explore the impact of everyday (i.e. social), rather than political, memories of communism, as well as humorous and ironic genres (as opposed to epic or moralistic versions) on young people’s engagement with the past

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Communism · Czech · Ethnography · Everyday life · Happening · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Performance art · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration