New review of "Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe"

Congratulations to Aleksandra Konarzewska and Anna Nakai, the editors of the book "Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe" for receiving a review appearing in  'The Polish Review' 69.3 (2024), p. 166. Published online on October 1st, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.3.20:

This anthology analyzes literature from Poland, Hungary, Russia, Czechia, Georgia, Serbia, Estonia, and Ukraine from the point of view of how memories (whether they be memories of World War II, of the Ukrainian Holodomor, or of life under communism) influence how nations construct their twenty-first-century identities. [...]

[Extract from book review appearing on 'The Polish Review' 69.3 (2024), p. 166. Published online on October 1st, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.69.3.20]

You can find more about the book here: Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe

Read the blurbs: 

In the region known as Eastern and East-Central Europe, the framework provided by memory studies became highly valuable for understanding the overload of interpretations and conflicting perspectives on events during the twentieth century. The trauma of two world wars, the development of collective consciousness according to national and ethnic categories, stories of the trampled lands and lives of people, and resistance to the rule of authoritarian and totalitarian terrors—these trajectories left complex layers of identities to unfold. The following volume addresses the issue of identity as a pivot in studies of memory and literature. In this context, it addresses the question of cultural negotiation as it took shape between memory and literature, history and literature, and memory and history, with the help of contemporary authors and their works. The authors take the literature of countries such as Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia as the point of departure, and explain its significance in terms of geographical, theoretical, and thematic perspectives.

Title Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe [Hardback]
Edition 1st
ISBN 978-1-64889-624-8
Published in May 2023