TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zuzanna Bogumił
AU  - Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783653065091
TI  - Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity
T2  - Local Communities, Religion and Historical Politics
DO  - 10.3726/b15596
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050185
N2  - This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of the Second World War. Despite having access to many diverse memory frameworks typical of late modernity, these communities primarily function within religious memory frameworks. The book also traces how they reacted when their local histories were incorporated into the remembrance practices of the state. The authors draw on case studies of four vernacular communities, notably Kałków-Godów, Michniów, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de mémoire. At the same time, they show that the state not only uses local histories to bolster its moral capital in the international arena, but also in matters of domestic policy.
KW  - cultural trauma, vernacular community, vernacular commemoration, monument, museum, Polish-Jewish relations, memory politics
LA  - English
ER  -