CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Racz, Krisztina |
|---|---|
| Title | Trauma or Entertainment?: Inside and Outside Symposion |
| Summary | My thesis deals with the absence of the trauma of the bombing of Serbia that took place in the spring of 1999, and the creation of a collective memory of it among the community of the contributors of the journal Symposion. More specifically, it explores how the interaction along the lines of the non-acknowledged trauma constitutes a mnemonic community of the people from Serbia and Hungary who corresponded with each other during the time of the air strikes. By looking at their e-mails and conducting interviews with some of the members of this community, I argue that the community is linked through emerging shared narrative patterns that have the function of normalizing the experience, creating shared cultural frameworks for remembering it. Hence, the internal dynamics of the community, its social position, the shared discourse and the everyday practices of the members of the community contribute together to the creation of a mnemonic community. |
| Supervisor | Vlad Naumasecu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/racz_krisztina.pdf |
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