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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463139903321

Titolo

Holodomor and Gorta Mór : histories, memories, and representations of famine in Ukraine and Ireland / / edited by Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen, and Vincent Comerford [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-97623-4

0-85728-223-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies

Disciplina

941.5081

Soggetti

Famines - Ukraine - 20th century - History

Famines - Ireland - 19th century - History

Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Congresses

Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 Congresses

Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Historiography Congresses

Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852 Historiography Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Holodomor and Gorta Mór : histories, memories and representations of famine in Ukraine and Ireland / Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen and Vincent Comerford -- Histories, historiography and politics. Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-1933: an interpretation of facts / Stanislav Kulchytskyi (translated from Russian by Christian Noack) ; Ethnic issues in the famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine / David Marples ; Grievance, scourge, or shame? the complexity of attitudes to Ireland's great famine / Vincent Comerford -- Public commemoration. History and national identity construction: the great famine in Irish and Ukrainian history textbooks / Jan Germen Janmaat ; Teaching hunger: the great Irish famine curriculum in New York state schools / Maureen O. Murphy ; Remembering famine orphans: the transmission of famine memory between Ireland and Quebec / Jason King ; The Irish famine and commemorative culture / Emily Mark-Fitzgerald -- Trauma and victimisation. Holodomor and the politics of memory in Ukraine after independence / Heorhiy Kasianov (translated from Russian by Christian



Noack) ; The great Irish famine in stories for children in the closing decades of the twentieth century / Celia Keenan ; Collective trauma in a feature film: Golod-33 as one-of-a-kind / Olga Papash (translated from Russian by Christian Noack) -- New sources and new approaches to the Irish and Ukrainian famines. In search of new sources: Polish diplomatic and intelligence reports on the holodomor / Jan Jacek Bruski (translated from Polish by Alicja Waligûra-Zblewska and Christian Noack) ; Oral history, oral tradition and the great famine / Maura Cronin ; Mapping population change in Ireland 1841-1851: quantitative analysis using historical GIS / Mary Kelly, A. Stewart Fotheringham and Martin Charlton.

Sommario/riassunto

Ireland�s Great Famine or �an Gorta M�r� (1845�51) and Ukraine�s �Holodomor� (1932�33) occupy central places in the national historiographies of their respective countries. Acknowledging that questions of collective memory have become a central issue in cultural studies, this volume inquires into the role of historical experiences of hunger and deprivation within the emerging national identities and national historical narratives of Ireland and Ukraine. In the Irish case, a solid body of research has been compiled over the last 150 years, while Ukraine�s Holodomor, by contrast, was something of an open secret that historians could only seriously research after the demise of communist rule. This volume is the first attempt to draw these approaches together and to allow for a comparative study of how the historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood in Ireland and Ukraine. Juxtaposing studies on the Irish and Ukrainian cases written by eminent historians, political scientists, and literary and film scholars, the essays in this interdisciplinary volume analyse how national historical narratives were constructed and disseminated � whether or not they changed with circumstances, or were challenged by competing visions, both academic and non-academic. In doing so, the essays discuss themes such as representation, commemoration and mediation, and the influence of these processes on the shaping of cultural memory.