Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe

1. Introduction; Simona Mitroiu
PART I
2. Memories of Displacement and Unhomely Spaces: History, Trauma, and the Politics of Spatial Imagination in Ukraine and Poland; Irene Sywenky
3. Forgotten Memory? Vicissitudes of the Gulag Remembrance in Poland; Lidia Zessin-Jurek
4. When Memory Is Not Enough: Roaming and Writing the Spaces of the Other Europe; Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams
5. Re-Reading the Monuments of the Past; Andrea Pr?chová
PART II
6. Dignity and Defiance: The Resilience to Repair and Rebuild in Response to Despair; Hannah Kliger and Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen
7. Individual and Official Narratives of Conflict in Croatia: Schools as Sites of Memory Production; Borislava Manojlovic
8. Bordering on Tears and Laughter: Changes of Tonality in the Life Histories of Estonian Deportees; Aigi Rahi-Tamm
9. Memory of Lost Local Homelands. Social Transmission of Memory of the Former Polish Eastern Borderlands in Contemporary Poland; Ma?gorzata G?owacka-Grajper
PART III
10. Caught Between Historical Responsibility and the New Politics of History. On Patterns of Hungarian Holocaust Remembrance; Ferenc Laczó
11. From Skull Tower to Mall: Competing Victim Narratives and the Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia; Michele Frucht Levy
12. Post-communist Romanians Facing the Mirror of Securitate Files; Raluca Ursachi
13. Divided memory in Hungary: the House of Terror and the lack of a left-wing narrative; Csilla Kiss