Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes: Silent Post-War Memory in the Margins of History

ISBN-13: 9780367674069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 238 str.

Tuominen, Marja

Opis

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 with comparative case studies. The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Reconstructing Hopes, Memories and Narratives  1. Post-War Cultural Reconstruction and the Nation: Some Comparative Considerations  2. Reconstructing Saami Culture in Post-War Finland  3. The Politics of Silences: Women’s War Experiences and the Discourses of Reconstruction in Poland (1945–1948)   4. "This Is My Past": War, Memory, and Forgiveness in Rosa Liksom’s Novel The Colonel’s Wife  5. Petsamo: A Region Lost, a People Ignored  6. Less Holy?: Reconstructing Eastern Orthodoxy in Post-War Finnish Lapland  7. Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth: Reading the Autobiographies of Finnish Youth, 1945–1960  8. Reconstructing Haunted Places: Postmemory and Ancestral Homelands  Part II: Reconstructing Landscapes and Mindscapes  9. Prison Island: Place of Remembrance or Place of Parley?  10. The Artist’s Gaze Turns to the Landscape and Wilderness  11. "On the Border Between Past and Future": Two Male Artists of Lapland and Their Relationship to Nature  12. Reviving the Legacy of Reconstruction-Period Type-Planned Houses