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Conference paper

Bagpipe Players and Painted Birds: Some Reflections on Writing the History of the People in the Marshes from a German Perspective

Authors list: Bohn, Thomas M.

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 32-43

Journal: The journal of Belarusian studies

Volume number: 10

Issue number: 1

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.30965/20526512-12350001

Conference: Annual London Lecture on Belarusian Studies

Publisher: Verlag Ferdinand Schönigh

Abstract:

The article adopts an approach to the history of Belarus’, which plays with imaginations. It opens up two vistas concerning the past that are marked by fictional texts. The former belongs to developments before World War I and is connected with a short story by Jakub Kolas, whereas the latter attends to events of World War II and is related to a novel by Jerzy Kosiński. In both cases supplements to the main texts offer insights into Soviet history, on the one hand into the era of revolutionary culture of the 1920s, and on the other hand into the political thaw of the 1950s. The result is an illustration of the metamorphoses that took place in the transitional region of Central and Eastern Europe in the process of Soviet modernization.

Authors/Editors

- Uni.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohn

Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: Bohn, T. (2020) Bagpipe Players and Painted Birds: Some Reflections on Writing the History of the People in the Marshes from a German Perspective, The journal of Belarusian studies, 10(1), pp. 32-43. https://doi.org/10.30965/20526512-12350001

APA Citation style: Bohn, T. (2020). Bagpipe Players and Painted Birds: Some Reflections on Writing the History of the People in the Marshes from a German Perspective. The journal of Belarusian studies. 10(1), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.30965/20526512-12350001