Displaced Memories
€73.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9783631678718 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG |
| Publishing Date | 31/07/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €69.72 |
| Tax | €4.18 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €73.90 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ethnic cleansing and displacement, they lost almost all of their pre-war inhabitants and were repopulated by new people. Based on more than 150 oral history interviews, the book describes the process of reconstruction of social microcosm, involving the reader in a journey through the lives of real people entangled in the dramatic historical events of the 20th century.