ISBN:
9780367469818
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 237 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karte
Series Statement:
Studies for the international society for cultural history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reconstructing minds and landscapes
DDC:
940.53/144094897
Keywords:
Postwar reconstruction
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World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects
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World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects
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Popular culture History 20th century
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Collective memory
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Cultural landscapes
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War and families
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Lapin lääni (Finland) History 20th century
Abstract:
Post-War Cultural Reconstruction and the Nation: Some Comparative Considerations / T. G. Ashplant -- Reconstructing Saami Culture in Post-War Finland / Veli-Pekka Lehtola -- The Politics of Silences: Women's War Experiences and the Discourses of Reconstruction in Poland (1945-1948) / Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz -- "This Is My Past": War, Memory, and Forgiveness in Rosa Liksom's Novel The Colonel's Wife / Elina Arminen -- Petsamo: A Region Lost, a People Ignored / Tiina Harjumaa -- Less Holy?: Reconstructing Eastern Orthodoxy in Post-War Finnish Lapland / Marja Tuominen -- Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth: Reading the Autobiographies of Finnish Youth, 1945-1960 / Essi Jouhki and Kaisa Vehkalahti -- Reconstructing Haunted Places: Postmemory and Ancestral Homelands / Liz Suda -- Prison Island: Place of Remembrance or Place of Parley? / Žiga Kreševič -- The Artist's Gaze Turns to the Landscape and Wilderness / Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja -- "On the Border Between Past and Future": Two Male Artists of Lapland and Their Relationship to Nature / Mervi Löfgren Autti -- Reviving the Legacy of Reconstruction-Period Type-Planned Houses / Anu Soikkeli.
Abstract:
"Mental and material reconstruction was--and is--an ongoing process after World War II. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland--a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state--with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries. The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural demobilization, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms of post-war silence and silencing which have barred or hindered different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather than focusing on the "executive level" of material reconstruction, the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities, women and children. The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal memories, autobiographical interpretations and academic debate. The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, art history and cultural studies"--
Note:
"This edited volume is the outcome of research project FEENIKS 'Art and Culture in the Mental and Material Reconstruction Process Following the Lapland War' that began at the University of Lapland in 2012."--Acknowledgments
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Language revisions and translations (chapters 2, 4-7 and 10-12) by Richard Foley--Acknowledgments
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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