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Ambiguous Endeavours
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
372 kr
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This dissertation examines how melodrama, defined as a complex, distinctly modern and transnational mode of storytelling, has influenced the area of Polish Holocaust representation since the late 1970s till the present. Within a methodological frame that seeks to combine textual and contextual analysis, the study poses a set of questions that can be asked of the melodramatic mode’s narrative structures and stylistic devices, their signifying and functionality, in literature and film. Other key issues considered include the melodramatic narratives’ ability to evolve and adapt during the cultural transformation of late-communism (the 1970s and 1980s) and post-communism (after 1989), and the circumstances accompanying melodrama’s rise to prominence within this particular field. I argue that the increased visibility and popularity of melodramatic narratives must be seen in relation to the long-standing associations between Polish Holocaust representation and forms of expression linked to high modernism and the avant-garde, but also as indicative of fundamental changes in post-communist culture.
Del 14 - Lund Slavonic Monographs
From Czernowitz to Chernivtsi : Remembering pre-WWII Cultural Diversity in a post-Soviet Western Ukrainian city
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
379 kr
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After World War II, the ethno-demographic structure of many cities in eastern and central Europe was fundamentally changed as a result of genocides, ethnic cleansing, deportations and migrations. The cultural diversity that had been characteristic of many of those cities was radically reduced, as new inhabitants tried to find their place in the cityscapes. In focus of this thesis is the memory work of contemporary elites in post-Soviet Chernivtsi specifically in relation to the lost cultural diversity of the pre-WWII city. The thesis asks to what extent the city’s lost pre-WWII cultural diversity has been accepted into elite narratives about Chernivtsi’s past, and whether some aspects of this diversity can be said to be more foregrounded or disregarded. Furthermore, it asks to what extent the memory work of local elites is connected to the creation of a local post-Soviet identity for the city in the post-Soviet period. The thesis shows how narratives celebrating local pre-WWII cultural diversity have permeated local memory work in the city during the period of study, while simultaneously in local discourse the most difficult aspects of that past often are avoided.