Les anciennes détenues politiques et les mémoires du communisme en Roumanie: le court récit d’une recherche socio-historique
Former Political Detainees and Memories of Communism in Romania: A Short Narrative about a Socio-Historical Research
Author(s): Claudia-Florentina DobreSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Oral history, Social history, Gender history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Studies in violence and power, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga
Keywords: Memory of Communism; Former Political Detainees; Witnesses; Identity;
Summary/Abstract: This article describes the methodology and the findings of a research about women, former political detainees, memory discourse about the communist period and political persecutions. It points out the difficulties and the unexpected results of such sensitive work. It argues that the narratives of former political detainees about their life experiences are influenced by both frameworks of memory as well as by their habitus of modern women belonging to the Romanian interwar middle class.
Journal: Studii şi materiale de istorie contemporană (SMIC)
- Issue Year: 20/2021
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 181-190
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French
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