Description
Book SynopsisThis evocative and wide-ranging set of articles is a forceful demonstration of how much the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe, largely neglected until now, needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the era of the world wars. The collection diagnoses the challenge of achieving an enlarged historical and artistic perspective, and then goes on to meet it. Themes that are universal (exile, loss, trauma, survival, memory) and the undying subjects of art and artistic efforts at representation, here find specific expression. The case of Lithuania and its diverse populations is revealed in its full significance for a modern European history of the impact of the age of the world wars.
Trade Review"...Lithuania in the two world wars has been studied extensively by military, political, and social historians but has been given little attention by researchers of culture and art. With this selection of modern Lithuanian scholarship from an impressive array of disciplines, Jankevičiūtė and Žukienė have taken a welcome step toward correcting that omission. They have composed a collection of interest to a readership beyond that of students of modern Baltic history; the articles engage equally with film and music theory, memory studies, and narrative theory." — Slavic Review, 77.3
Table of ContentsPreface
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Foreword
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Rasutė Žukienė
Chapter 1: The Art of Walking in Wartime Wilna
Laimonas Briedis
Chapter 2: Jewish Vilnius in the Works of German Artists
Laima Laučkaitė-Surgailienė
Chapter 3: The Diaries of Death
Agnė Narušytė
Chapter 4: Art as a Narrative of Everyday Life in Lithuania during World War II
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė
Chapter 5: Trying to Survive: The Activity of Exiled Baltic Artists in Germany in 1945–1950
Rasa Žukienė
Chapter 6: The Memory and Representation of World War I in Lithuania
Rasa Antanavičiūtė
Chapter 7: The Limits of the Blockade Archive
Natalija Arlauskaitė
Chapter 8: Constructing Blocks of Memory: Post-Holocaust Narratives of Jewish Vilna
Larisa Lempertienė
Chapter 9: World War II Memory and Narratives in the Music of the Lithuanian Diaspora and Soviet Lithuania
Rūta Stanevičiūtė
Authors
List of Illustrations
Index
