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(2013) Memory and theory in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Murder in the cemetery
memorial clashes over the victims of the Soviet-Polish wars
Andrzej Nowak
pp. 149-171
Memory events begin at graves, especially mass graves.1 War cemeteries form a natural environment for both memorial clashes and reconciliations. Here I intend to rethink the story of one such event and its victims: the dead. Dead bodies are not infrequently changed into bones of contention between private and public, between politics, histories, and religions, between power, knowledge, and the sacred.2 But can the dead be murdered again?
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Nowak, A. (2013)., Murder in the cemetery: memorial clashes over the victims of the Soviet-Polish wars, in U. Blacker, A. Etkind & J. Fedor (eds.), Memory and theory in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-171.
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