Belarus - Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory and Cosmopolitanism

ISBN-13: 9780367583354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Simon Lewis

Opis

This book explores the nature of Belarus’s identity, revealing in a range of media including histories, films and literature complex alternative myths. In reality, as the author shows, Belarus is characterized by immense cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity, which is indeed represented in some important Belarussian writing.

Spis treści

Introduction: Alternative Visions

Part I: Contexts (1800-1991)

1. An Abundant Harvest: the Emergence of Belarusian Memory

2. By Force of Myth: The Making of the Partisan Republic

Part II: Texts of Resistance (1956-1991)

3. Memory at War: Un-writing the Partisan Republic

4. Retrofitting Rebellion: Defiance and Laughter as Hybrid Memory

Part III: Texts of Renewal (1991-2015)

5. Still Fighting: The Afterlife of the Partisan Republic

6. Divided Legacies: Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning

Afterword: On Cosmopolitan Memory

O autorze

Simon Lewis is a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Fellow in the Institute for Slavonic Studies at the University of Potsdam.