Лексиконът: Към дискурса на детството и юношеството през социализма
The Lexicon. Towards the Discourse of Childhood and Adolescence during the Time of Socialism

Summary/Abstract: children and teenagers in the late socialist times – with an emphasis on the so-called lexicon (album, Freundschaftsbuch) and the memory book; to follow how the child and the adolescent utter themselves, how they construct their identity within the two mentioned unoffi cial genres on the verge of the private and the public; to outline the problematic authenticity of their story between the banality of the ideology and the clichés of the popular culture. The paper traces how the informal private language of the lexicon and the totalitarian public language interfere or coincide, and how in the institutional fi eld of force and despite the social roles assigned to them, the child/adolescent fi nds shelter in the lexicon. The second part of the project and the second point in time include gathering and analyzing short interviews with owners of lexicons in order to fi nd out how they regard their “lexicon experience” from the distance of two or three decades and in a totally different context.

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