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

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

Edited By Marja Tuominen, T. G. Ashplant, Tiina Harjumaa Copyright 2021
250 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state – with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on key aspects of... Read more

Introduction

Marja Tuominen, T. G. Ashplant and Tiina Harjumaa

Part 1: Reconstructing Hopes, Memories and Narratives

1. Post-War Cultural Reconstruction and the Nation: Some Comparative Considerations

T. G. Ashplant

2. Reconstructing Saami Culture in Post-War Finland

Veli-Pekka Lehtola

3. The Politics of Silences: Women’s War Experiences and the Discourses of Reconstruction in Poland (1945–1948)

Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz

4. "This Is My Past": War, Memory, and Forgiveness in Rosa Liksom’s Novel The Colonel’s Wife

Elina Arminen

5. Petsamo: A Region Lost, a People Ignored

Tiina Harjumaa

6. Less Holy?: Reconstructing Eastern Orthodoxy in Post-War Finnish Lapland

Marja Tuominen

7. Reconstructed Landscapes of Northern Youth: Reading the Autobiographies of Finnish Youth, 1945–1960

Essi Jouhki and Kaisa Vehkalahti

8. Reconstructing Haunted Places: Postmemory and Ancestral Homelands

Liz Suda

Part 2: Reconstructing Landscapes and Mindscapes

9. Prison Island: Place of Remembrance or Place of Parley?

Žiga Kreševič

10. The Artist’s Gaze Turns to the Landscape and Wilderness

Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja

11. "On the Border Between Past and Future": Two Male Artists of Lapland and Their Relationship to Nature

Mervi Löfgren Autti

12. Reviving the Legacy of Reconstruction-Period Type-Planned Houses

Anu Soikkeli

Biography

Marja Tuominen is a professor of cultural history at the University of Lapland.

T. G. Ashplant is a visiting professor at the Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London.

Tiina Harjumaa is a doctoral candidate and part-time teacher in cultural history at the University of Lapland.

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