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The twentieth century in Europe was characterized by great moments of rupture, with two world wars, ideological conflict, and political polarization. In these processes, as well as in the historical writing that followed in its wake, the individual as an historical entity often appeared crushed. In line with contemporary theories about the precariousness of historical writing and the self, this volume seeks to understand the important developments in modern Europe from the perspective of the single, sometimes isolated, but always original viewpoint of individuals inhabiting the space at the other side of the traditional grand narratives. Including theoretical chapters as well as detailed case studies, this volume takes a biographical approach to dystopian events—the Holocaust, Fascism, Communism, and collectivization—by starting with the voices of unknown historical actors and relating their experiences to larger processes in modern European history, such as the emergence of the national, collective memory, and state formation, as well as changes in the understanding of modern identities and the (re)formulation of the self.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History — Revue Européenne d'histoire.
Contents
The politics of contested narratives: biographical approaches to modern European history. Introduction Ilse Josepha Lazaroms and Emily R. Gioielli 1. Personal epistemologies: historiography, self-reflexivity and bios Pierre-Heli Monot 2. Living Mitteleuropa in the 1980s: a network of Hungarian and West German Intellectuals Victoria Harms 3. The double bind of self-narration: Joseph Roth, Jewish identity and the undercurrents of European modernity Ilse Josepha Lazaroms 4. Contiguous spaces of remembrance in identity writing: chemistry, fiction and the autobiographic question in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table Catalina Botez 5. Measuring identity change: analysing fragments from the diary of Sándor Károlyi with social-network analysis Tünde Cserpes 6. Re-presenting moral ambivalence: narratives of political monologue regarding András Hegedűs and Pál Teleki George Greskovits 7. Public festivities and the making of a national poet: a case study of Alexander Pushkin's biography in 1899 and 1937 Anastasia Felcher 8. Self-identification through narrative: reflection on the collectivisation of agriculture in Bulgaria Yana Georgieva Yancheva 9. Biography and social change: industrialists and the Communist revolution in Yugoslavia Mitja Sunčič 10. The secret life of us: 1984, the miners' strike and the place of biography in writing history 'from below' Daryl Leeworthy
