By Simona Mitroiu
This quantity addresses the problems of remembering and appearing the earlier in japanese eu ex-communist states within the context of multiplication of the voices of the prior. The e-book analyzes a few of the ways that reminiscence and remembrance function; it does so through the use of various equipment of recollecting the prior, from oral heritage to cultural and old associations, and through drawing on a variety of political and cultural theories and ideas. via well-documented case reports the amount showcases the plurality of techniques on hand for examining the connection among reminiscence and narrative from an interdisciplinary and overseas viewpoint.
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258). In textual narratives, this continuous dialogue between past and present assumes a discursive nature, and the narrative practices of memory are often closely linked to spatial imagination. The ongoing reassessment of the relation between the discourse of history and collective imagination – in its connection to space and place and the persistent questioning and rewriting of the official narrative of the past through the prism of memory – constitutes the main problematic of much of the literary production in post-totalitarian Eastern Europe.
Reflecting on these events of cross-border contact and rereading the history, Tokarczuk’s novel necessarily participates in the Polish side of the German–Polish dialogue and engages in the often uncomfortable archeology of memory, which becomes part of the process of articulation of the long-silent past. Tokarczuk’s narrative itself parallels the work of memory: non-linear, fragmentary, disorderly, full of gaps and incomplete knowledge, it slowly moves toward an understanding of the town’s past and of its present-day community by bringing together different perspectives, individual stories and personal memories.