Sandra Meskova

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Cristiana Facchini

Università di Bologna

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Kansas State University

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Macquarie University

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University of Cambridge

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McGill University

Veena Das

Johns Hopkins University

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European University at St. Petersburg

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Università degli Studi di Bergamo (University of Bergamo)

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Université de Montréal

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Representation of the Historical Memory of World War II in Latvian Autobiographical Writing: Family Stories

SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS Proceedings, 2015

Subjectivity-in-Dialogue: the Use of Epistolary Narrative in Contemporary Women�s Life Writing

SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH, 2020

Memory Narratives in Contemporary Latvian and North American Life-Writing

Settling in a Foreign Land: Women’s Experiences in Exile in Latvian Writer Irma Grebzde’s Prose Fiction

Exile is a central motif of 20th century European culture, and literature was often tied to histo... more Exile is a central motif of 20th century European culture, and literature was often tied to historical events throughout this century, especially during World War II. In Latvian literature, this motif was partially the result of the emigration of a great part of the population in 1944; many were fleeing direct warfare and the return of the Soviet army, escaping from Latvia. This paper examines the peculiarities of women’s experiences in exile in the prose fiction of Latvian émigré writer Irma Grebzde (1912–2000). Grebzde was among those 250,000 Latvians who fled as fugitives in 1944 for Sweden and Germany and then proceeded further to the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. Grebzde fled to Germany where she stayed at Wurzburg refugee camp and in 1948 moved to Canada. She worked in New Brunswick, Ottawa, Montreal in 1973 and then settled in Toronto. Grebzde has produced about 30 short prose fiction collections and novels. An important subject in Latvian émigré l...

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Spacing Memory: Topographies of Memory Narrative in Margaret Atwood�s and Anita Liepa�s Fiction

6th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts and Humanities ISCAH 2019, 2019

‘Angry Young Women’ Disrupting the Canon in Late Soviet Latvian Literature: Andra Neiburga’s Early Prose Fiction

In the late phase of ‘developed socialism’, shortly before Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of perestr... more In the late phase of ‘developed socialism’, shortly before Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of perestroika or reconstruction in the Soviet Union in 1985 had reached Latvian cultural establishment, a young generation of poets, writers, playwrights, journalists, musicians, cinema and theatre artists throughout the socialist bloc countries and the Soviet Union initiated new trends in culture. In Soviet Latvia, the new trends in prose fiction produced by young writers were labelled the ‘new wave’. Among them emerged a group of women writers called ‘angry young women’ who challenged the established canon of socialist realism by addressing new themes including the negative sides of Soviet reality and everyday life, silenced pages of Latvian history under the Soviet regime, issues of sexuality, etc., as well as introducing new poetic features in the prose narrative. The representatives of the ‘new wave’ produced short prose fiction works that were published in the monthly journal Avots and thus...

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Two mothers of Latvian literature: Aspazija and Anna Brigadere

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Sievišķā reprezentācijas latviešu un ziemeļamerikāņu literatūrā

Two mothers of Latvian literature: Aspazija and Anna Brigadere

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2003

... In 1935, Latvian literary critic Paula J~gere-Freimane criticized an academic literary histor... more

Studies of Monuments to Famous Persons as a Component of National Identity.

by Maija Burima, Sandra Meskova, Ingrīda Kupšāne, and Ilze Oļehnoviča

Monuments or open space sculpture objects are very significant components of commemoration of nat... more Monuments or open space sculpture objects are very significant components of commemoration of national history and structure of national identity. They are significant landmarks of the environment and often function as meeting places due to their encoding as spatial checkpoints in the mental maps of people living in the respective area. Monuments to famous persons characterize relations between ideology and its projection on masses from the perspectives of social history, visuality, communication, and art. These objects are usually connected with various processes of social life and related to commemoration rituals as they mark places of public gathering on particular events for sharing memories of an event related to the action of or ideas proclaimed by the subject of the monument. Monuments to famous persons are always recorded in the socio-political context and acquire a variety of functions in the political communication as objects of both remembrance and oblivion. The experience in the field of monumental sculpture within the post-Soviet territory is diverse and even contradictory. The interpretation of these monuments can yield meaningful comparisons
of attitudes characteristic of the Soviet and post-Soviet period towards personalities represented in monuments. In addition, monuments to famous persons are also popular objects of tourist routes.
Keywords: monuments, sculpture objects, identity, commemoration

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Representation of the Historical Memory of World War II in Latvian Autobiographical Writing: Family Stories

SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS Proceedings, 2015