Format:
1 online resource (485 pages)
ISBN:
9783838276021
Series Statement:
Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society v.241
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword. About the Significance of Stories -- Introduction. Memories of Change in Central Europe -- Thirty Women-Three Countries -- Women's Life Stories as Historical Sources -- Oral History and the Narrative Approach: Praxis and Theory -- 1 Dis/connections. Memories of Childhood and the Interwar Period -- "And then this Trianon-thing came…": The 1920 Treaty of Trianon in Memories -- Scene from Childhood: The "Horthy Era" and "Old Yugo" (1920-1941/1944) -- Religious Education: Narrating the Political in Childhood Stories -- Summary -- 2 Dance Lessons, Balls and Bullets. Memories of Adolescence and the Second World War -- The Happiest and Most Terrible Time -- Periodization Through Two Turning Points -- Russian Soldier, German Soldier -- Mothers and Daughters -- Summary -- 3 Progress or Stagnation? Remembering Adulthood in Socialism -- Collectivization Narratives -- Stories of Survival and Personal Advancement -- Motherhood and the State -- Socialist Nostalgia -- Socialism in a Narrative of Stagnation -- Summary -- 4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ethnicity in the Voices of Minority Women -- The Legacy of Nazism in Personal Memories: Erasure and Ethnicization of a Regime -- "Clean as a glass": The Racialization of Difference -- Summary -- 5 Change and Continuity. Stories of Retirement, Old Age and the 1989 Transitions -- Rupture: Retiring during the Time of Transitions-A Personal Decision -- Continuity: Work during Retirement -- Summary -- 6 A Different Way of History-Telling. Home and Movement in Women's Narratives -- Home as "Greater Hungary": Nostalgia for the Lost Land -- Home as Community: Nostalgia for the Federation -- Home as Movement -- Summary -- 7 "Now we are laughing but back then…". Humour and Performative Laughter -- Summary -- Conclusions. Divided Memories of a Generation -- Bibliography.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783838216027
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Agárdi, Izabella On the verge of history Stuttgart : ibidem Verlag, 2022 ISBN 9783838216027
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Serbien
;
Geschichte 1920-2020
;
Zeitzeugin
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Frau
;
Ungarn
;
Rumänien
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