Memory Cultures in Literature. How the Communist Past of Bulgaria is Dealt with in the Novels of Ilija Trojanow, Dimitré Dinev and Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Abstract
The article investigates the literary processing of the communist past of Bulgaria in the “Bulgaria novels” by Ilija Trojanow, Dimitré Dinev and Sibylle Lewitscharoff. These question the ideological expressions in communist ideology and then propose alternatives are for common terms such as culture, identity, migration, foreign, home, East-West relationship, religion, history, authority, urban spaces. The result is a roll call of ideological thought and practice in totalitarian Bulgaria. The literary production of personal stories and alternative memories helps to reveal how and to what extent the public story penetrated into the private everyday life of the people and traversed it. Such reporting about past events can instrumentalize, manipulate and suppress the story.
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