The Art of Identity and Memory : : Toward a Cultural History of the Two World Wars in Lithuania / / ed. by Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Rasutė Žukienė.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Antanavičiūtė, Rasa,; Arlauskaitė, Natalija,; Briedis, Laimonas,; Gabriel Liulevicius, Vejas,; Jankevičiūtė, Giedrė,; Laučkaitė-Surgailienė, Laima,; Lempertienė, Lara,; Narušytė, Agnė,; Stanevičiūtė, Rūta,; Žukienė, Rasa,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gabriel Liulevicius, Vejas.
• HerausgeberIn: Jankevičiūtė, Giedrė,; Žukienė, Rasutė,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

This 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 a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• CHAPTER 1: The Art of Walking in Wartime Wilna
• CHAPTER 2: Jewish Vilnius in the Works of German Artists
• CHAPTER 3: The Diaries of Death
• CHAPTER 4: Art as a Narrative of Everyday Life in Lithuania during World War II
• CHAPTER 5: Trying to Survive: The Activity of Exiled Baltic Artists in Germany in 1945-1950
• CHAPTER 6: The Memory and Representation of World War I in Lithuania
• CHAPTER 7: The Limits of the Blockade Archive
• CHAPTER 8: Constructing Blocks of Memory: Post-Holocaust Narratives of Jewish Vilna
• CHAPTER 9: World War II Memory and Narratives in the Music of the Lithuanian Diaspora and Soviet Lithuania
• Authors
• List of Illustrations
• Index